Please be advised that the Shire of Merredin has now entered the Restricted Burning Period, as of Thursday, 16 September 2021. As such, permits are required for burning. For more information, click here.
Please refer to Healthy WA and WA State Government for up to date information regarding COVID-19.To view the Shire of Merredin coronavirus page, click here.
Please be advised that there are currently verge maintenance works being carried out on Merredin - Narembeen road. Traffic control will be in place during these works. Please take care during this time.
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.
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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.
Read about some of the upcoming works within the Shire of Merredin.
Water Corporation will begin work on 9th of February 2021 to improve the water supply in Snell Street, Merredin. The works will run through to end of February.
Celebrations kicked off at the Merredin Community Resource Centre for the annual Australia Day Breakfast on the morning on Tuesday, 26 January 2021.
200 medical students from Curtin University and Notre Dame will be participating in a rural immersion program from Monday, 15 March 2021 until Friday, 19 March 2021.
On Tuesday, 17 November at 2:00pm, the Shire of Merredin held a short unveiling ceremony for the new Give a Hoot, Don’t Pollute water refill station on the Visitor Centre lawn.
NAIDOC Week was held from Sunday, 8 November, until Sunday, 15 November with the theme Always Was, Always Will Be.
Shire facilities, not including the landfill site of the swimming pool, will be closed from noon on 24 December until 4 January.
The Shire of Merredin and RAC are partnering to deliver a Public Piazza Pilot Project as part of RAC's Reconnect WA initiative.
Most people think they handle and prepare food safely, yet statistics show the majority of food poisoning occurs in the home.