The Waitakere Ranges Local Board voted tonight (29 November) to adopt the option of removal of a few bollards and a speed hump to save Piha Pohutukawa. For this option  [ Read More ]

Piha did well in the recent Sustainability Business Network Awards. Local bach owner Chris Morrison, gained the Sustainability Champion Award as a true pioneer, advocating over a long period for sustainable  [ Read More ]

Some Piha boys including Joshua Llewellyn and Tim Bailey have launched a new mega reggae HiFi system that apparently packs a lion-sized roar. Go here to read about them http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/western-leader/7948762/It-ll-blow-you-away/

Stephanie Kroeger’s one of my favourite West Coast painters and I am the happy owner of a couple of Stephanie’s work. She captures the landscapes and iconic sights of the  [ Read More ]

Friday night saw some of our favourite musicians entertaining at the Bowler.  George Thomson played some long smooth duets with Ron Dugdale, each knowing exactly where to go with the  [ Read More ]

It started with a man with raised arm in front of Pakiti. Down came the IRB at full tilt and hauled him out. This was followed by the retrieval of first  [ Read More ]

Tasha Gray has taken over from Tracy Skidmore as the new Piha Community News editor. She takes over from Tracey Skidmore – the Skidmore family leaving Piha in the not  [ Read More ]

A huge variety of interpretations of Lion Rock can be seen on the walls of the West Coast Gallery with the opening on Saturday of the Rock the Lion exhibition.  [ Read More ]

Piha’s Melanie Reid scooped the pool of prestigious investigative journalism awards at the NZ television Awards with “The Eye of the Storm”, her investigation of the treatment of claimant Bronwyn Pullar  [ Read More ]

Starting 15 November, surfer Dave Rastavich “Rasta” will paddle on an epic journey from Cape Egmont to Piha arriving here on 1 December. Dave is an internationally acclaimed surfer and  [ Read More ]