Once part of the bricks and mortar of Auckland's cityscape, a range of historic buildings are no more. Alan Perrott looks into their rise and fall.

'Wolf Hall' - a rip-roaring historical tome about Thomas Cromwell - has won the $68,000 Man Booker Prize.

The father of a man who died in the Mt Erebus disaster says a plan to fly victims' families back to the site is a publicity stunt.

The Viking reputation as bloodthirsty conquerors has endured for more than a millennium but new research shows that some Norsemen approached the British islands with more than a little trepidation.

Qantas will today celebrate naming one of its new transtasman aircraft after our most famous pilot - Jean Batten.

Michael Laws is embroiled in fresh controversy after an email exchange over the 'h' in Wanganui went viral.

Wanganui's mayor said Pita Sharples did not understand "any culture that is not Maori", after the Maori Party co-leader called for Wanganui residents to accept its new name.