Piha Residents and Ratepayers plans a campaign to educate locals about the dangers of fireworks. A flyer is under development which will be hand delivered around Piha before New Years  [ Read More ]

Local and Sports Parks West report: Maintenance is required along Marine Parade South to remove sand from the car parks and existing pedestrian walkways down to the beach.  Local and  [ Read More ]

Local Parks West is planning a completely new toilet block to serve patrons of the Piha Domain and visitors to Piha. The existing block, contained in a Lockwood building, is  [ Read More ]

The death occurred on 5 December of Dr Newton Ernest Wickham Wicky, a very long-standing bach owner at North Piha, and a devoted friend of Piha. Wicky was born in  [ Read More ]

Mischa Davis, surfer extraordinaire, and sometime bar girl in surf club, has come home from Europe to Piha and shares her reaction, in beautiful prose. Welcome home Mischa, and keep  [ Read More ]

Auckland Council has been treating Alligator Weed in the Marawhara, Wekatahi, and Lily Pond over the winter. Now this awful weed has turned up in the Domain. When I reported  [ Read More ]

Here’s an interesting article about surfing tourism, what it can add to local economies, and where it can all go bad.  Piha has its share of surfing events, and since  [ Read More ]

After a local found an exhausted and maybe sick seal pup on North Piha, DOC was called. They declared it not a good idea to take the pup away, so  [ Read More ]

Sad to report not one of our fabulous sports people and administrators struck gold at last Friday’s Waitakere Sport Awards. Never mind, we all think you are winners!

Paula Bennett was successful at the polls for the Waitakere seat heading off a spirited campaign by Carmel Sepuloni. Here’s the results taken at the Piha Polling Booth at Barnett  [ Read More ]