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A heavy police presence was felt in Piha last night after a series of suspicious fires.

Police are looking for a firebug after a spate of suspicious fires at Piha.

The offensive slogan was one of many to spark a complaint against the company.

Two women, both disappearing from the same track near Piha, have left police baffled.

Two women, both disappearing from the same track near Piha, have left police baffled.

Police say information from the days before her disappearance led them to the cliffs.

Four-day search for woman around Mercer Bay loop track has been suspended for the evening.

Kim Bambus is still missing and police are appealing to anyone who may have information.

The search for the missing 21-year-old has entered its fourth day.

Searchers are today continuing to scour rugged Piha terrain for missing runner Kim Bambus.

Search to resume at first light as police release information about Kim Bambus' movements.

A fire near Piha Beach Piha Beach on Auckland's West Coast has been extinguished.

A couple got into trouble while swimming at a notoriously dangerous west coast beach late at night.

A group of endangered New Zealand dotterels have begun nesting at a Piha site where the tiny native birds' biggest threat - dogs - are allowed to roam off-leash during the day.

A body has washed up on Muriwai Beach, north-west of Auckland, this afternoon.

The man in his mid 20s disappeared near Lion Rock just after 6pm last night.

Conditions were "messy" were two people got into trouble at Piha yesterday, a resident said.

The search for the missing man will resume this morning.

Parents recall the day their 5-year-old boy died at Piha - a place he loved for the freedom it gave him.

The child who died in a "tragic accident" at Piha on Saturday was found on rocks.

The 2012-kilometre tractor journey, Expedition South, to help raise $1 million to save Sir Edmund Hillary's hut in Antarctica has finished alongside Sir Ed's statue at The Hermitage in Mt Cook. The three tractors — two Ferguson TE20s and a Massey Ferguson Antarctica 2 — ended their journey at 2pm this afternoon.

Seabed mining is back in the spotlight as Trans Tasman Resources submits second application for consent to mine off the South Taranaki coast.

Over the last 60 years, the hut - one of Antarctica's most precious heritage sites - has slowly fallen into a state of disrepair.

Emergency services are responding to a report of a fisherman in the water at Piha this morning.

Five off-duty lifeguards have been honoured for their rescue of an unconscious woman in rough seas at Piha on Auckland's west coast.

Police do not believe there are any suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of a person whose body was found on an Auckland beach today.

Driver toots horn to help emergency services locate them after car plunges off road to Piha.

Two people escaped serious injury after their car went down a bank on Piha Rd near Piha Beach in northwest Auckland tonight.

It sits on nearly 14ha of sprawling ridgetop land commanding dramatic views over Piha's sentinel Lion Rock and the churning Tasman Sea.