A chip off a very big block
When Sir Edmund Hillary said of Mt Everest "we knocked the bastard off", it turns out he meant it literally.
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Chief cleared of 1865 murder at last
The key figure in one of the most notorious murders in New Zealand colonial history has been pardoned.
Great sporting exits
Retirement is a difficult enough call for many professional sports stars, and when you are a legend - having been feted for many years - it can be trickier than most.
Stag party finds 3m-year-old 'elephant'
It's The Hangover-meets-Jurassic Park. While most stag parties involve paintballing, the pub or a strip club, one group of friends spent did some impromptu palaeontology.
Time travel with historic holidays
Elisabeth Easther takes an affectionate look at some stalwarts of colonial tourism that still stand tall today.
The mists of history
The last home to Russia's doomed royal family, and the haunt of 'mad mystic' Rasputin, the Alexander Palace has been trashed over the past century. Now an Aucklander is part of an international group helping to restore it as a world-heritage museum.
Workers refuse to deliver free paper
The Sun's 22 million free World Cup editions won't be delivered by postal workers near Liverpool - who still loathe the paper over its Hillsborough coverage.
What to do with the Civic Building?
Auckland Council's Civic Building, which contains asbestos, could become a hotel or apartments and its ground-floor be converted into shops.
Bomber and veteran two of the lucky ones
A veteran who was lucky to survive 60 missions in Lancaster bombers during World War II was present yesterday for the unveiling of new markings on a Lancaster now to be known as "a lucky aircraft".
'He's been in worse scrapes'
It was the D-Day adventure that captured the imagination of the country.
Leonie Hayden: My top five York Street jams
In honour of Auckland’s York Street closing down, here are five music moments that came from within those studio’s walls that touched my cold, cold heart.
Art firm reveals its Nazi-era records
A German auction house has for the first time made public its records from the Nazi era.
WWII Kiwi airmen our 'best and brightest'
On the 70th anniversary of D-Day a book seeks to win recognition for young flyers who bravely took the fight to the enemy
Nepal names peaks for Hillary, Tenzing
Nepal has named two Himalayan peaks near Mount Everest after Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and opened them to foreigners for climbing.
Historic courthouse to be disposed of
The historic Oamaru Courthouse is to be disposed of, a decision that has been greeted with surprise and disappointment in the town.
Our kiwi is no Aussie
New, startlingly bizarre findings have finally solved the 150-year-old mystery of how the kiwi arrived here in New Zealand.
Which Woodhouse? MP's Gallipoli gaffe
Minister of Veterans' Affairs Michael Woodhouse has upset a family by mistakenly claiming a link to the Gallipoli campaign.
Female scientists - invisible?
A quarter of people are unable to name a single famous female scientist, either living or dead, a European-wide study will reveal this week.
Young urged to visit battlefields
Young New Zealanders have been urged by Governor-General Sir Jerry Mateparae to visit the battlefields and cemeteries of Europe, not just Gallipoli.
1984: The wonder year
It’s said that the good old days weren’t that great. But if you’re talking about the year 1984, writes Greg Dixon, then the good old days were actually rather good indeed.
Veterans to mark our bloodiest World War II campaign
This weekend around 40 New Zealand veterans will remember their fallen comrades at services to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of Monte Cassino.
8 giant prehistoric water monsters
Bones discovered over 30 years ago in the Waipara River in Canterbury have now been identified as the elasmosaurs. Here are eight sea monsters that once cruised in the earth's waters.