On November 11, 1918, at 11am Germany and the Allied forces signed an armistice to end four years of brutal battle, marking the end

Nothing speaks more powerfully to how little NZ has cared about the wars fought here than the almost total neglect of some of the battle sites.

Te Aroha Museum is celebrating 110 years of electricity in the region with an exhibition that will trigger powerful memories for older people. Among the items on display, vintage vacuum cleaners and heaters. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

COMMENT: A century ago it was predicted that a moron would one day live in the White House. That prediction has now come true.

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

The NZ Herald wasn't the only paper around the world to go big with the US election coverage.

The rich and famous - and some sex-starved sailors, had a great time until Vesuvius roared, writes Derek Cheng.

COMMENT: Hillary Clinton is likely to become the first female president of the United Sates, but not because the voters like her.

COMMENT: Over the past 150 years the New Zealand Wars have always been central to New Zealand's history and even its popular culture.

While many locals found themselves swimming in a pool of misery after watching Ireland make history against the All Blacks in Chicago

Research project to look at the lives of those who died in the 1918 flu epidemic and were buried at Karori Cemetery.

Date chosen to commemorate land wars has special significance for those who say Maori never ceded sovereignty.

The name of a Kiwi soldier executed for mutiny during World War I will finally be added to a war memorial dedicated to mutineers

Dropping a plate or spilling a drink would be bad, but few will suffer this indignity.

The killer who strangled a 13-year-old girl in Auckland in 1976 now appears to have got away with her murder.

Constable Quirke shoots Stanley Graham and brings to an end one of New Zealand's worst mass shootings that killed seven men.

The Wakatere playground in Thames will soon be gone.

WATCH: The Station building was hauled 400m by crane and truck from a private Lauder property and placed beside the Otago Central Rail Trail.

John Funnell was the search-and-rescue pilot who has saved the lives of thousands of victims, clocking up a staggering 19,000 hours of flight time.

The Woodville community is coming together for the sake of an old railway station under threat. And Kiwi Rail seems likely to agree. Made with funding from NZ on Air.

The Woodville community is coming together for the sake of an old railway station under threat. And Kiwi Rail seems likely to agree. Made with funding from NZ on Air.

The garden will be completed in time for the centenary of Passchendaele, finally a place of peace where far too many young NZers died in the horror of war.

A piece of hallowed ground in Belgium which holds in its grasp the remains of hundreds of NZ soldiers is still claiming victims a century after WWI.

A garden made for contemplation on a World War One battlefield where New Zealand soldiers faced "hell on earth" will be built here and shipped to Europe.

NZ Herald Focus: The $65 million restoration of Auckland's St James Theatre is continuing to unearth secrets of the city's past.

As a gang member held a knife to his throat, Jarrod Gilbert wondered if he was about to die.

COMMENT: We have no right to look back and judge past eras by our standards.

A New Zealand woman received five-star treatment after she was the one millionth visitor to a museum which commemorates a World War

Look at South Africa if you want an example of how far the wiping of the history books will go.

Descendants of the great NZ pilot Jean Batten have installed a plaque at her Spanish gravesite and say her remains should be left where they lie.