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Convictions for damaging historical site

Two companies responsible for digging up an archaeologically significant early Maori site have today been convicted and discharged by a judge.

100 Kiwi Stories: Kiwi part of 'hush-hush brigade'

61: Today we might call them special forces. When Robert Kenneth Nicol joined a top secret British Army unit in 1918, it was known as the "hush-hush brigade".

Morgan: Get radical on race issues

Pakeha nearly "exterminated" Maori and need to make good on the intent of the Treaty - including compulsory te reo in all primary schools, Gareth Morgan says.

Lost Hitchcock documentary released

A lost documentary Alfred Hitchcock made about the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps during World War Two has finally reached screens thanks to movie mogul Brett Ratner.

Auschwitz survivors remember horror

Survivors who escaped the gas chambers at Auschwitz have remembered the horror of the infamous Nazi death camp 70 years after liberation by Red Army soldiers.

Pioneers' 10,000 relatives meet

With now more than 10,000 descendants, the first Hansens' place in history was acknowledged at a major reunion of about 1200 family and friends in Manukau on Friday and Saturday.

Staff paid heavy price

Few major institutions in Auckland's history devoted 82 per cent of their staff to a war.

Bank survived against odds

Auckland's oldest bank nearly fell prey to the Government's economic plans in 1870, potentially curtailing the role it would play in the rise of Auckland commerce and community.

Editorial: Unique Xmas we should all celebrate

The Marsden Cross is known to most of us only as a photograph. It is on a remote northern shore in the Bay of Islands, not as accessible as Waitangi or Russell.

CIA's Queen of Torture outed

In the film Zero Dark Thirty, she was the persistent, conscientious CIA officer who finally tracked Osama bin Laden to his lair.

The day Pakeha called NZ home

More than 500 people gathered on a hilltop in the Bay of Islands yesterday to celebrate the bicentenary of Pakeha settlement in New Zealand.

Michele Hewitson: Motat CEO Michael Frawley

On Wednesday it rained and on the few occasions it stopped, it thundered. It was a hell of a day to go to poor old Motat and hardly anyone did.

Peter Bromhead: Flag's proud heritage fading to black

There is a growing belief that we're going to end up with a national flag that reflects our prowess on the rugby field rather than continuing with the existing emblem.

Last Nazi death camp guard to face trial

A 93-year-old German man Oskar Groening, who claims he was an accountant at Auschwitz, to go on trial for being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 prisoners.

100 Kiwi Stories: Journals recount voyage to war

55: For five anxious years the troopships set sail from New Zealand, carrying her men in uniform away to war.

Naval vets honoured

Four surviving veterans of one of New Zealand's most famous naval battles joined nearly 600 sailors and thousands of well-wishers in a parade on Auckland's Queen St yesterday to mark the Battle of the River Plate's 75th anniversary.