A small crew turned up today (Sunday) to pull lupins in an effort to make the dunes lupin free. Plants were either hand pulled, or cut off and the stump  [ Read More ]

A message from Auckland Council In March 2013 the Waitakere Ranges Local Board agreed to put trigger points in place that monitor the need to retrain the Wekatahi and Marawhara  [ Read More ]

Now in its ninth year, Operation Speedo began its summer tour of duty with a launch and lunch at Arataki or Friday 31 October. Operation Speedo is a joint safety  [ Read More ]

Piha locals are invited to two sessions to remove lupins from the stretch of beach at mid-Beach north of the helicopter landing pad. Organised by the Parks staff for the Waitakere  [ Read More ]

Regional Park rangers have wasted no time in opening a track between the lookout overlooking the Gap and the newly acquired Byers block of land. It is now easy to  [ Read More ]

The latest Western Leader has a great photo of three sets of under-14 twins representing Piha SLSC at this weekend’s pool champs at West Wave. They are from the Thompson,  [ Read More ]

As part of the Herald series of articles about WW1, the story was told of the four Browne brothers who died in WW1. All four died within a two year period.  [ Read More ]

Auckland Council has just released the latest results for water quality at beaches in the Auckland region and the West Coast and the Manukau Harbour beaches have the unwelcome distinction of  [ Read More ]

Piha community members had a chance on Sunday afternoon (3 August 2014) to see plans for a new expanded frontage for the Piha SLSC clubhouse. On hand to explain were  [ Read More ]

31 July 2014  Media Release from Auckland Council Seventy eight hectares of land on Auckland’s wild west coast has been added to the Waitakere Ranges Regional Park. Councillor Christine Fletcher,  [ Read More ]