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Soper: Unprecedented, unusual election

COMMENT: Having covered 13 election campaign, this one is certainly eventful.

Kiwi women in front at the ballot box

As soon as women had won the right to vote they exceeded men in voting turnout.

Local Focus: Waikato candidates' local history test

Waikato candidates answer the important questions. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

'Lazy' schoolgirl's energetic career of political innovation

Elizabeth McCombs crushed her opponents to become New Zealand's first female MP.

Kiwi puts twist on ancient history of agriculture

Early man's shift to agriculture led to poorer health for mothers and babies, study finds.

'One of us was a widow - and one of us wasn't'

Tales of tragedy and survival in Waikato mining disasters that killed 54 men.

Editorial: Let the past speak with monuments

EDITORIAL: Historical monuments can be left to speak of a past that is well behind us.

Luxury spa facility planned for Rotorua lakefront

Stakeholders say the facility will bring in tens of millions of tourist dollars yearly

Treasure hunt that created overnight millionaires

150 years ago today, a group of men made the first major gold discovery in Thames.

Local Focus: 150 years since Coromandel gold rush began

And it might not be over yet. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Opinion: The case for Rocky Bay

COMMENT: Nobilangelo Ceramalus weighs in on the official name of a Waiheke Island bay.

A look at the year the pirate ship set sail

Rainbow's End's pirate ship first started swinging in 1983 - what else was happening?

The $505,000 painting sold in Auckland

The painting of Sir John Logan Campbell has never been seen in public till now.

Schoolgirl's rare Everest memento

Precious memento of triumphant expedition team's special visit goes under the hammer.

Secret wartime Auckland plane crashes everyone knew about

Japanese internees were being taken from Auckland to Australia for a prisoner exchange.

Kiwi plastic surgeon saves soldier's life

Plastic surgery owes a huge debt to the battlefield work of Harold Gillies