Otago town Ranfurly takes week's record for coldest place at -9.1C.

Protest leader and police share warm embrace at Bastion Point.

Bastion Point remembered - commemoration events, photos and films on anniversary.

Orchid Atimalala becomes the first woman chair of the Auckland Museum Trust Board.

Sir David Attenborough wants NZ and Oz to document all species before it's too late.

A group of young Kiwis have helped make new discoveries in NZ's Kermadec Islands.

Traffic the only gripe in New York Times writer's love letter to Auckland.

The livestream begins at 2pm and will run for about two and a half hours.

The exhibition includes Lego models of the Taj Mahal and the Empire State Building.

Leaves collected during Captain Cook's first NZ voyage show 250-year shift in CO2 levels.

Researchers whose work has saved brain-injured babies have been honoured.

Council wants better value for money from museums, gallery.

WW2 memorabilia left in restaurant

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

It's an NZ choral work called The Unusual Silence but it will heard across the world.

COMMENT: Auckland's natural history could get in the way of museum WWI memorial.

Napier school lines up for education excellence award at Auckland ceremony.

Awards for Maori New Year celebrate outstanding commitment to Aotearoa and kaupapa Maori.

EDITORIAL: Auckland Museum's new director picks up a so-far successful development plan.

The new director of the Auckland War Memorial Museum talks about the major changes ahead.

NZ galleries are working with a child sex abuse victim photographed naked by her mother.

More than 2000 passengers will use it during morning peak, mostly university students.

Aucklanders will be the first in the world to see a ground-breaking artwork which brings Antarctica's icebergs to town.

200,000 are expected at biggest cultural festival in the country.

Qatar Airways has a reputation for lavish parties to launch new routes and says its gala dinner in Auckland will be no exception.

Contemporary comic puts quiet achievers in the picture.

Northcote College students see their research displayed at Auckland Museum.

The All Blacks will wear poppies when they play Italy on Sunday.

Auckland Museum's new gallery, which replaces the beloved Auckland 1866 Centennial Street, is now open.

A Kiwi expedition to the far-flung Kermadec Islands has put scientists up close with some of the ocean's most fascinating residents.