This annual music scholarship is awarded to a young talented music student to the value of $1,000.

The WA State Government has announced that the Public Transport Authority regional safety improvement program will be extended to include the construction of the secondary platform at the Merredin Railway Station.

Learn how to fight the bite this mosquito season!

The Shire would like to congratulate and welcome the newly elected and re-elected Councillors for 2021.

At the October Ordinary Council Meeting, Council approved the following Opening Hours for the Shire of Merredin Facilities.

The Shire of Merredin has secured $2,139,309 dollars in grant funding through the Federal Government’s Building Better Regions Fund (BBRF) Round 5.

Merredin volunteer firefighter Sheree Lowe has been making headlines all around the state this month after winning the Volunteer Fire and Rescue Service Award at the 2021 WA Fire and Emergency Service Awards on Saturday, 11 September 2021.

Hundreds of travellers from all around the state set their maps destination to Merredin for the inaugural Gateway Merredin Festival, held during the September long weekend from September 24 – 26.

On Thursday, 5 August, three Shire staff along with five community volunteers completed a tree planting day along the Burracoppin—Campion Road in the Shire of Merredin.

Do you know someone who makes our community a better place?

August 18, 2021, marked 55 years since the Battle of Long Tan.

The Shire of Merredin has installed a new standpipe controller on the standpipe located in Hubeck road.

NAIDOC Week was celebrated around Australia from 4 - 11 July, 2021.

The Hon. Mark McGowan MLA, Premier of Western Australia, was welcomed to town by the Merredin Shire Council and Staff in the Shire Administration Building on Tuesday, 27 July.

The Shire of Merredin is pleased to announce the appointment of new Chief Executive Officer Ms Lisa Clack for a five-year term.

This month we farewelled a valued member of our team, Calvin Shotter, the Executive Manager of Engineering Services.

The Blue Light Disco returned to Merredin on Saturday, 22 May 2021 at Cummins Theatre.

The Shire of Merredin is one of only two Local Governments to achieve wildflower friendly status through the State Government’s Wildflower Friendliness Award Scheme for 2020/21.

The Merredin District Olympic Swimming Pool has been officially recognised as a Gold Waterwise Aquatic Centre at the Waterwise Recognition Breakfast held at Perth Convention Centre on Wednesday, 12 May 2021.

Stage 1 of upgrade works along South Avenue have now commenced with the preliminary works of footpath construction underway.

On the morning of the 25 April 2021, the community came together at the Merredin Cenotaph for a very special ANZAC Day service.

This year, Youth Week was held across Western Australia from 9 – 16 April, and in Merredin we celebrated by holding an Amazing Race!

A new Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub based in Merredin, Western Australia is set to transform the way that farmers and communities prepare for and respond to drought.

A watercolour landscape by Jessie Spring has been awarded the Shire’s long standing annual Art Acquisition Prize at the Merredin Fine Arts Society’s exhibition on Saturday, 27 March 2021.

The Merredin District Olympic Pool has been awarded a Gold Waterwise Status for the Waterwise Council Program for 2019/20.

An update from Shire President Julie Flockart.

More than one hundred community members treated their senses to an array of exquisite dishes at the Merredin Twilight International Food Festival on Friday, 19 March 2021.

Merredin hosted twenty-six first and second-year placement medical students from the Universities of Notre Dame and Curtin from March 15 – 19, as part of the Medical Student Immersion Program facilitated by Rural Health West.

The Shire of Merredin has successfully secured grant funding for an inaugural memorial festival to be held in Merredin from Friday, 24 September to Sunday, 26 September 2021.