Regulation

Liquidators assigned to property held by Chris Marco are able to distribute millions of dollars from the alleged Ponzi scheme to affected investors.

A Woodlands man has been sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment, but will be released on a two-year good behaviour bond, for conspiring to pump up the price of Quantum Resources shares.

The director of a solar energy business that was based in WA for five years has been ordered to repay $48,000 for falsely claiming to have installed 11 solar systems.

Aspiring Perth-based oil and gas company Black Mountain Energy has been fined almost $40,000 for "greenwashing" its sustainability statements on the stock market.

A proposal to clear more than 600 hectares of native vegetation to make way for an expansion at Fortescue’s new iron ore mine will be scrutinised by the state’s environmental watchdog.

A Kununurra hydraulic repair company and its sole director will be forced to pay $435,000 over a forklift incident that left a teenage worker with life-threatening injuries.

Perth-based PT Supplies Group has been fined over $240,000 after a teenage worker’s fingers were severed by forklift chains.

Former Quintis director Graeme Scott has had an early victory in his defamation battle with several of the company's most senior executives, with the Supreme Court ruling there should be no restriction on his access to one of the documents at the centre of the case.

Western Power has been fined $66,000 after an employee suffered severe electrical burns working on high-voltage overhead power lines two years ago.