Auckland Transport is consulting on speeds on the Piha Road. Coming westwards, AT wants to reduce the speed from the Anawhata turnoff from 100 kph to 70 kph. From 30  [ Read More ]

Today (18 June 2014), the Decision-Making Committee of the Environmental Protection Agency has turned down the application by Trans-Tasman Resources to carry out iron sand mining on the South Taranaki  [ Read More ]

Under the name of Manuka Catering the Piha Café has applied to extend its alcohol on-licence from 11 am to 7pm Monday to Sunday to 11 am to 10 pm  [ Read More ]

Just after 9 pm last night the fire siren went twice. Usually heralding a car crash on the Piha Road, this time the cause was much closer to home. With  [ Read More ]

In the recent budget, the Government pledged over $26 million for protection of kauri forests and research. With kauri PTA recently found in the Coromandel forests for the first time,  [ Read More ]

The Waitakere Ranges Local Board adopted the Piha Reserves Restoration Plan at its meeting on 8 May. The Plan, developed by Wildlands Consultants covered the reserves fronting North Piha Beach  [ Read More ]

The West Auckland Historical Society has launched its annual Essay Competition carried out in honour of historian John T Diamond. Entitled Capturing the West, there are categories for young people  [ Read More ]

The Piha café has been granted extended hours enabling it to stay open till 10 pm. The permission was granted on a non-notified basis, meaning that there was no opportunity for  [ Read More ]

A number of works have occurred around Piha in the last recent while. Up on the Waitakere Ranges Regional Park at the entrance to the Mercer Bay Loop Track a  [ Read More ]