Small Businesses

Nearly 13,000 customers lost power across the far west of NSW this morning after a fault in the electricity network. Some businesses say the uncertainty was too much after experiencing rolling blackouts in October.

The Australian facial injectables industry was estimated to be worth $4.1 billion in 2023, with big corporates including Wesfarmers owning a slice of the market. But the business model behind the boom has attracted complaints and raised some safety concerns.

A Business Council ranking of states and territories has crowned South Australia the best place in the country to run a business and labelled Victoria the worst. It could spur a debate inside Labor about whether the state is beginning to hurt Anthony Albanese's election chances.

An outback surveying business owner says he can't commit to contracts in a region where his skills are desperately needed.

Australians are set to spend almost $7 billion in just four days during this year's Black Friday-Cyber Monday sales, as the cost of living sees more shoppers eager to snap up a bargain.

Small businesses in regional South Australia are sharing supplies and referring customers to each other as part of a strategy that owners say is helping drive economic growth in their communities.

The rate of business failures is now the highest it has been since the COVID-19 pandemic, and it is only set to grow as the cost of doing business squeezes companies from all sides.

A South Australian council is upset because it says Woolworths and Coles are making grocery deliveries to a town where larger stores are not allowed to open on Sundays.

A special shipment is set to arrive in the islands this month, after the collapse of the Cocos Co-Op — owner of the West Island supermarket  — left residents with dwindling supplies.

Behind Alpha's empty storefronts are the remnants of a once-bustling Queensland town with multiple industries and a thriving social scene. It's a familiar story across the country, but not everyone has given up hope.

Two beer-brewing brothers based in Deloraine, in northern Tasmania, have stepped into cider-making after they asked community members for their spare backyard apples and were overwhelmed with the response.

Anger at the closure of popular tourist attractions in the border town of Nelson over the past three years sparks a movement hoping to cut through bureaucracy and create a new plan for the future.

An increasing number of Canberra restaurants are closing their doors, and the next 12 months is expected to get even worse.

Their work has been a godsend for the directionally challenged and a staple in the homes and cars of farmers, graziers and rural Australians everywhere, but Terrence and Rosemary Alick are about to call it a day.

The Circular Head Chronicle in Tasmania's far north-west has been covering the region's news since 1906, but with advertising revenue drying up, the paper has announced it will print its final edition on Wednesday.

An evacuating resident has captured on video the moment fire engulfs a NSW tobacco shop after a suspected ram raid attack in the early hours of the morning.

Darren Brown says he has gone to "every length" to get the hotel he runs properly listed on Google, and that without the visibility the losses to the business have been "immeasurable".

The federal government's threat to ban excessive debit card surcharges by 2026 has been welcomed by customers and small businesses who have been hit with higher costs for years — but not everyone is on board.

There is an end in sight for consumers getting hit with sneaky surcharges when they pay on card, with the federal government prepared to ban the practice by 2026, promising to give consumers and small businesses "a fair go."

Complex state planning laws and allegations that Woolworths and Coles are hoarding blocks of land to keep competitors out are facing further scrutiny from the ACCC as it investigates the country's concentrated supermarket sector.