Andrew Stone checks into Taveuni Palms Resort.

Andrew Stone presents 10 smart ideas and products which could get traction in 2019.

Iran gives up its delicious culinary secrets and Andrew Stone is smitten.

Andrew Stone explores ancient sites in Iran.

Andrew Stone is bedazzled by Iran's ancient mosques.

Andrew Stone is spellbound by the hospitable people he meets in this enduring land.

Andrew Stone flies 17 hours from Auckland to Doha in cattle class, but returns in style.

Robots are widely plugged into the economy, but what does the robot future look like?

Andrew Stone joins a safari in Sri Lanka and spots all creatures big and small.

10 bold ideas which could change the world.

Andrew Stone checks out Thai Airways new Boeing 787-9 from Auckland to Bangkok.

Andrew Stone checks into a heritage property with Indian Ocean views.

Dedication in Belgium of New Zealand's Passchendaele garden satisfying for Auckland firm.

New Zealand garden set in a landscape of grief laid on a European battlefield.

Kawau Island residents say Auckland Transport is backing away from its wharf closure plan.

Wharf closure plan upsets Kawau Islanders.

A history conference is looking at dissent in World War One.

The chance discovery of a foot has led to history being rewritten.

Andrew Stone flies SQ469 from Sri Lanka to Singapore.

Electric vehicles, robots, drones - getting goods from A to B goes hi-tech

Andrew Stone spends 24 hours in a plantation manager's restored estate home.

Kiwi in London says people stand shoulder to shoulder in the face of terror.

Could shared taxis take over the Auckland CBD at the expense of private cars?

Truck driving jobs face extinction as driverless trucks will become the industry standard.

It may be small and far away but Sri Lanka ticks all the travellers' boxes.

Andrew Stone enjoys the comforts aboard SQ286.

Creating a healthier Auckland will take time, says public health coalition

Historian Monty Soutar is making a last plea for rare pictures of WWI Maori soldiers

The father of 'tropical modernism' has a cultish following, writes Andrew Stone.

Kiwi ultra-distance swimmer Kim Chambers is diving into US-Mexico border relations.

Fog harvesting, floating dairy farm and smog towers... Andrew Stone outlines some clever and inspiring innovations that we might hear a bit about in 2017.

Herald journalist Andrew Stone describes the terrifying aftermath of the quake.

A piece of hallowed ground in Belgium which holds in its grasp the remains of hundreds of NZ soldiers is still claiming victims a century after WWI.

A garden made for contemplation on a World War One battlefield where New Zealand soldiers faced "hell on earth" will be built here and shipped to Europe.

A New Zealand woman received five-star treatment after she was the one millionth visitor to a museum which commemorates a World War

It is 80 years since the famous New Zealand aviatrix Jean Batten took off from England for her record breaking solo flight to Auckland.

Last month, American Michael Burke received a book by New Zealand historians in the mail at his California home.

A company which gets millions in public funds to eradicate tuberculosis says it stands by a nationwide advertisement found to have breached the advertising industry's code of ethics.

An opponent of New Zealand's tuberculosis (TB) eradication programme has successfully challenged the agency which spends millions

Letters written 100 years ago by a NZ sailor have revealed how he survived a catastrophic naval battle in World War I by smearing his body with heavy oil.

Alan Bollard has written two books about Bill Phillips, a visionary New Zealander who changed the world of economics.

Couple who spent 25 years creating a showpiece garden on Kawau Island are devastated that a crew clearing a corridor laid waste to some of their precious specimens.

In light of the sugar tax debate we revisit this story about the impact sugar had on singer Che Fu's life.

This little-known episode in New Zealand's political history has been unearthed by American historian Seth Koven.

Henry Worsley died trying to become the first adventurer to cross Antarctica unassisted. In November the Herald got an insight into his 2037km solo trek.

Mountaineer Pat Deavoll is gearing up to go back to the high peaks of Asia - on a titanium knee and an ankle fused by metal pins.

A bugler whose tributes to war casualties have moved thousands of New Zealanders has played for the last time.

The fate of a NZ submariner who vanished with his vessel 101 years ago could finally be settled by a mission in the Bismarck Sea off Papua New Guinea.

On the eve of last weekend's RWC final, university academic Toni Bruce dared to suggest that not everyone in New Zealand was terribly interested.

The father of a Northland man's World War I diaries could be the last returned to veterans' descendants by the British archive.

The NZ hope for the Melbourne Cup, Mongolian Khan, has officially been scratched from the race.

Insiders tell the story of Helen Clark's relentless drive to get the job done, whatever it might be.

The New Zealand Defence Force is searching for a famous rugby trophy won by a team of New Zealand soldiers almost 100 years ago.

Rhys Jones, a springer spaniel, has learned to sniff out Argentine ants which are unwelcome invaders in the Hauraki Gulf.

Author Bruce Ansley cherishes pointing his car along New Zealand's highways and roads.

On the afternoon of October 6, 1915, Leslie Beauchamp, a New Zealander in the British Army, gave a class in grenade throwing. He didn't survive it.

Turnbull's coup against Abbott this week proves that while modern prime ministers still survive or perish based on the support of their colleagues.

Tribal rituals, war relics and the legendary 'Queen of lovemaking and drinking' are just the tip of Rabaul's iceberg, finds Andrew Stone.

Melinda Tankard Reist spends a fair bit of time in fairly grubby places. She says it's paying off.

War sacrifice will feature on a memorial wall in Waihi honouring soldiers who belonged to the New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, a First World War unit of tough miners.

Endurance swimmer Kim Chambers speaks on becoming the first woman to complete the epic Farallones crossing.

56: Dave Gallaher fought on three battlefields — in the South African Boer War, on the Western Front in Europe and on rugby paddocks as an influential All Black.

100: New Zealand shed gallons of blood for Britain in the Great War.

98: The war was over and Alexander Burns Ferguson was heading home on the Veronica, a 1200-tonne sloop used for minesweeping and escort duties.

97: The headstone near a whitewashed church in Rarotonga reads, "In memory of Ettie A. Hornibrook."

96: Lawrence Weathers was an undertaker by trade and a soldier by choice. He was also one of four New Zealanders awarded the Victoria Cross while serving in the Imperial Australian Army.

95: Gerald Mawley liked to push the boundaries.

Andrew Stone goes in search of his ethnic roots with the help of science and a little bit of saliva.

93: A soldier plagued by wartime foot injuries later had an Auckland rugby league trophy named after him - the William Devanney Stormont Shield.

92: On the honours board at Dilworth School the name of one pupil - Eric Guest Ancell - is inescapable.

91: Southland surgeon-captain was tending wounded men when bayoneted by Germans.

88: Almost 100 years after he died in the uniform of another country, soldier Alexander Ormond stands firm in relief beside the pounding Pacific.

87: Frank Twisleton loved service and he loved adventure. A Yorkshireman, the young Twisleton emigrated to New Zealand with his parents and brother Thomas in 1895.

86: Rifleman Clifford Nightingale was more familiar with the pen than the sword when he sailed with hundreds of reinforcements to join troops on the Western Front.

An online family history database is opening its military records tomorrow as an Anzac gesture.

85: Major was one of the "A" Battery commanders when a 101-gun royal salute in Auckland's Albert Park backfired in June 1911, injuring four.