A notebook belonging to Sir Edmund Hillary will be auctioned off after it was discovered in a box of old books donated by the late mountaineer's caretaker.

Mankind is already adapting to the widespread impacts of future climate change - but how did we do it in the past? A Kiwi researcher has helped explain.

A carved stone statue of Queen Victoria missing from the UK Houses of Parliament for over 100 years has been found in a back garden.

Wellingtonians with an itch to find out more about their houses are in luck.

Almost 10 years after he lost his leg during a Mt Ruapehu eruption, William Pike will summit the mountain in Antarctica.

Prominent Kiwis have banded together to demand an independent inquiry into the claims of sexual and physical abuse of children in state care.

Faded - but explicit - letters found in a Paris cellar reveal an affair that still has the power to shock, says Nick Harding.

A garage owner has defended displaying the Confederate flag after a Dunedin woman took to social media to register her shock at seeing it.

West Coast-Tasman MP Damien O'Connor has stoked the campaign to relocate the historic steam train the Kingston Flyer to the West Coast.

Your questions about Waitangi and the Treaty have been answered.

COMMENT: Waitangi is time to consider path so far and road ahead.

Jaws of death: US sailors aboard the USS Indianapolis, whose ship had been sunk by Japanese torpedoes, were picked off by sharks in the midst of the Pacific Ocean.

Kiwi scientists have reconstructed more than 34 million years of our climate - including a period when New Zealand was up to 8C warmer - using 2000 samples of fossilised tree pollen.

The palace of the Roman emperor who allegedly torched the imperial city can now be admired in all its splendor after being buried

COMMENT: Why would a Pakeha of Irish ancestry be passionate about the Treaty of Waitangi? Two main reasons, writes Terry Dunleavy.

Since the FBI's "Top Ten" most wanted list was first created in 1950, 512 fugitives have been listed on it. Only 10 of them have been women.

It's taken travelling the world for Napier MP Stuart Nash to realise that there's no better place to raise a family than Napier; and

Former President Barack Obama could rake in more than $26 million in advance for his post-presidential memoir.

The restoration of the hut included repainting it in its original bright orange and yellow colours.

Astonishing link uncovered between Kiwi soldier who died in Gallipoli and bloodied Turkish family heirloom.

Each year, our country is shifting at about the same speed our fingernails grow. Here are four other strange things you probably don't know about New Zealand.

The "Kawhautahi dragon" - said to have attacked a party in 1892 - is a NZ "cryptid", an animal whose existence can be neither proved or disproved, writes Paul Charman.

The CIA has finally made public previously top secret files including about 4000 records about New Zealand.

Three shearers from different corners of the country have smashed a world shearing record - 1611 strongwool ewes between them in just eight hours. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Strongman mine disaster happened 50 years ago next week. Paul McBride catches up with the five surviving members of the Mines Rescue teams.

COMMENT: With "A grade" mysteries hard to find these days, Paul Charman jots down some of his favourite Kiwi mysteries for your summer reading pleasure.

A museum replica of the Seddon family homestead that once stood in Kumara has been suggested for the historic site.

The Fuhrer may have used a secret runway to escape his Berlin bunker and flee to South America in a Luftwaffe plane.

The impact of a large asteroid 66 million years ago, created the 'Big Chill'.

Next week's 50th anniversary of the Strongman Mine disaster may be the last opportunity for many to remember the 1967 tragedy.