WA rocks: making room for the boom
A surging mining industry has the West Australian economy humming along like never before. The wild excesses of the WA Inc era have been replaced by a busy confidence, writes Ruth Williams.

Enron duo are facing life in jail
SOMEONE had left the courtroom microphone on, so Ken Lays words were caught as he stood waiting for the verdict in the corporate-crime trial of a generation. He turned to his lawyer Michael Ramsey and asked if his wife Linda could stand next to him for the verdict.

Kenny Boy's Connections
Nation - Robert Scheer is editor of TruthDig , where this essay originally was published. The Bush Family consistently acted to put Enron and its longtime CEO Ken Lay into a position to rip off investors and taxpayers. Why is the mass media ignoring that fact

The Growl of a Housing Bear
Author and real estate maven John Talbott says the bubble has stretched about as far as it possibly can

State gears for summer kickoff
DOVER The price of gas is 88 cents higher than it was last year, but more cars are expected to be on the road this Memorial Day weekend than ever before.

Border Patrol Welcomes Troops
El Paso News - Friday, May 26, 2006 National Guard Troops are on their way to the border, arriving by the middle of next week. However the big question is what they will be doing once they're here. Many are afraid troops on the border will carry weapons and

Former Hatch Coach Pleads Guilty
El Paso News - The former head football coach at Hatch High School in New Mexico takes a plea agreement that keeps him out of jail. Tuesday, May 30, 2006 Shawn Bohannon pleaded guilty on Monday to charges of child abuse and contributing to the delinquency of a

Demise of M3 index provides fodder for conspiracy theorists
Willits News - GLOBAL stock markets have gone into acoordinated swan dive in the past two weeks, with the biggest gainers (emerging markets) suffering the biggest losses (a 15 percent decline, according to the Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Index). While each

Rand won't hammer property bank economist
Moneyweb, South Africa - May 24, 2006... that this probably wouldn t reverse the weakening trend in house price inflation but ... to the economy is if the currency correction becomes a crash, with the ...

Good news outshines overdue stock crash
Edmonton Journal (subscription), Canada - May 18, 2006... How about house prices? In northeast Edmonton, the price of a typical three-bedroom, 1,240-square-foot bungalow is now about $220,000. ...

Teen Crash Victim Mourned
Students are remembering a Snohomish County teen killed in a car crash this weekend.