News Search: Posted 09 January 2020 Licencing Service Temporarily Unavalible Shire of West Arthur driver and vehicle licensing services will be unavailable on Friday 10 January 2020. Read More Posted 09 January 2020 Positions Vacant The Shire invites applications from individuals for the following roles. Read More Posted 19 December 2019 Availability of Annual Report and Annual Electors Meeting In accordance with section 5.55 of the Local Government Act 1995, notice is hereby given of the availability of the Shire of West Arthur 2018/19 Annual Report. Read More Posted 18 December 2019 Lake Towerrinning Water Quality Water test results from a sample collected on 11 December 2019 at Lake Towerrinning did not detect Amoeba Naegleria. Further water samples will be taken in January. Read More Posted 18 December 2019 Office Closure Over Christmas/New Year Holiday Period The Shire Office will be closed from 1pm Tuesday 24 December 2019 to 8:30am Thursday 2 January 2020. Read More Posted 07 December 2019 Harvest and Vheicle Movement Ban A complete harvesting, machinery and vehicle movement ban including the operation of internal combustion engines any other activity likely to cause a fire has been imposed within the whole of the shire of West Arthur. This ban will be effect on 7 Dec 2019 Ban to be lifted at 6pm. Read More Posted 05 December 2019 Darkan Light Industrial Area - Business Development Opportunity Expressions of Interest Invited The Shire of West Arthur invites expressions of interest for the lease of premises to be developed in the Darkan Light Industrial Area. Read More Posted 20 November 2019 Australia Day Breakfast & Awards 26 January @ Lake Towerrinning Read More Posted 28 October 2019 Planning and Development Act 2005 Notice of public advertisement of Local Planning Policy. The Council has prepared the following draft Local Planning Policy Read More Posted 19 September 2019 Results of Election At the close of Council nominations, the following candidates were elected unopposed: - Adam Squires - Graeme Peirce - Neil Morrell Read More Posted 18 September 2019 Memberships Kids Central & Community Gym Memberships Due Read More Posted 18 September 2019 Swimmin Pool Opening The Darkan Swimming Pool is opening in October. Read More Posted 15 August 2019 Corporate Plan 2019-2023 Council adopted the Corporate Plan for the four year period 2019/20 to 2023/24 in June 2019. Read More Posted 09 August 2019 Budget 2019/2020 The Shire adopted the 2019/20 Budget on 30 July 2019 with an overall increase in rates of 1.9%. Rate notices were posted on 9 August. Read More Posted 28 March 2019 Seniors Meals The Shire of West Arthur supports volunteers in the preparation of meals for seniors once a week. Read More Posted 14 February 2019 Annual Electors Meeting and Availability of 2017/18 Annual Report Annual Electors Meeting and Availability of 2017/18 Annual Report, Read More Posted 28 January 2019 Australia Day Award Winners Australia Day Award Winners Read More Posted 17 October 2018 Collie Darkan Rail Trail - Section Closed from 5 November Main Roads are commencing works near Bowelling. Coalfields Road and the Collie Darkan Rail Trail will be realigned. A section of the trail will be closed for short periods during the works. The first closure will be for a period of two weeks commencing 5 November 2018. Read More Posted 02 July 2018 Corporate and Community Plans Revised The Shire has recently completed a review of their Corporate and Community Plans. Read More 1