Last night, Profesor Russell Stone, opened the Auckland Heritage Festival with the inaugural Sir John Logan Campbell address. This is planned to be an annual event, allowing a scholarly person  [ Read More ]

Piha pohutukawa has her own Facebook page and 41 friends already. You too can be a friend too by going to http://www.facebook.com/piha.pohutukawa#!/piha.pohutukawa Also read NZ Herald write up from today (28 September)  [ Read More ]

Logan Adams and Kris O’Neill of Piha SLSC have just won the BP Surf Rescue of the Year Award for the rescue of  four Asian tourists near Lion Rock on  [ Read More ]

Join Josh Kronfeld and Bob Harvey to hear about sea-bed mining on the West Coast 7.30 pm 26 September 2012 at the Bowler

Saturday 20 October 2012 8-12.30 am R18 DJs DJ Tandoori Tim and Rogan Gosh Soul Samba Circus Dress to Impress Cash bar and cafe West Coast Community Arts Trust Event  [ Read More ]

Welcome to Jimmy Boswell who has recently moved into Lone Kauri Road, Karekare. He’s travelled and cooked internationally and is a specialist in gluten-free food products and recipe development being a  [ Read More ]

Marvellous music at the Bowler led by George Thomson on the guitar, accompanied by Maurice Reviol, guitar and base clarinet, Jimmy Boswell, harmonica, Sean Pont, vocals and harmonica, Alan Foulkes,  [ Read More ]

Ron Cooper, a loyal and long-standing member of Piha Surf Life Saving Club, died at Taupaki Gables on 15 September 2012. Ron was born on 7 April 1927, grew up at Smale  [ Read More ]

 Don Binney, painter and great lover of the West Coast, has suddenly died aged 73. Binney was in hospital for other reasons when he suddenly had a heart attack and  [ Read More ]