What more could a national holiday do except reopen old wounds and invite continued debate? We have enough of that around Waitangi Day.

The fate of a NZ submariner who vanished with his vessel 101 years ago could finally be settled by a mission in the Bismarck Sea off Papua New Guinea.

There is a dissonance between the reality of modern war and the high ideals by which war is justified, writes Chris Barfoot. These ideals form a deadly combination.

The father of a Northland man's World War I diaries could be the last returned to veterans' descendants by the British archive.

A Royal Navy sub was sent on a Cold War mission to spy on its own side to prove that crews could safely carry out surveillance of the Russian fleet.

Real-life links of Ben Wishaw's family to world of espionage revealed in book by agent's daughter.

An edited extract from High Country Stations of the Mackenzie, written by Mary Hobbs reveals the pioneers of the famed Mt Cook Station.

The legacy of Sir Edmund Hillary has scaled new heights, with his personal documents added to a list of the world's most treasured documents.

Our obsession with bling has shone through the centuries. What draws us to shiny things and how much is too much?

Let us not get rid of yet another reminder of our unique history as a city. writes Helen Laurenson. The struggle between modernity and memories, forgetfulness and obligation to the past has continued in Auckland.

The New Zealand Defence Force is searching for a famous rugby trophy won by a team of New Zealand soldiers almost 100 years ago.

Items from the Titanic, including a lunch menu grabbed by a survivor, have been sold at auction.

Work is to start on removing human bones from a restaurant building site at Auckland's Long Bay Regional Park.

How did the 19th century murder of a vivacious young Englishwoman affect the invasion of a Maori pacifist settlement one year later?

On the afternoon of October 6, 1915, Leslie Beauchamp, a New Zealander in the British Army, gave a class in grenade throwing. He didn't survive it.

Why stay home in the holidays? Catherine Smith checks out the Heritage Festival's highlights.

Standing in the light of a gas lamp and pressing your nose against window panes to peer into a quaint colonial shop or cottage will become a thing of the past for visitors to Auckland Museum.

Genuine world-class cities venerate heritage. Unless we get real about protecting our heritage, Auckland is in danger of becoming a fake, writes Elizabeth Aitken-Rose.

Veterans who today marked 70 years since the end of World War Two in the Pacific say people haven't learned enough lessons from the war.

After 35 years a violin worth millions finally makes its way home.

If there is one event that defines the modern world, it is the blinding, searing, radioactive explosion over the city of Hiroshima 70 years ago today.

Seventy years on, the feared nuclear Armageddon has been kept in check - but a new threat is mounting, writes Alexander Gillespie.

I've written, enough times to make it seem memorable, of hikers, hunters, divers and cavers coming unexpectedly upon human bones.

Neglected Campbell Island seems to me like New Zealand's planet Pluto.

And before the advent of local anaesthetic, the process of treating them sounds fairly miserable.

Grant Bradley revisits a long-held interest with a tour of Colditz, the German castle which housed POWs during World War II.