Sir Edmund Hillary's diaries from his ascent of Mt Everest will be released on a daily blog in the lead-up to the 60th anniversary of the climb.

Brian Rudman asks: "Should we be shipping this cultural heritage off to a commercial collector of photographic libraries in the United States for safe-keeping?"

Ian Steven took the bait, and it landed him in a whole lot of trouble with his wife.

A famous German World War II bomber nicknamed "the flying pencil" has spent decades submerged in the English Channel after being shot down in the Battle of Britain. Now, divers are braving dangerous tides to bring it to the surface.

Archaeologists say they have found physical proof that some of the earliest British settlers in America resorted to cannibalism to survive.

For centuries it was thought to be a legend - a city of extraordinary wealth referred to by Homer, visited by Helen of Troy and her lover Paris, but apparently lost under the sea.

Harry "Middy" Middleton spoke very few words about the Great War.

It had been a long time since busy mum Kylie Perry had taken a day off work to stay home with her pair of boisterous pre-schoolers.

To mark the 60th anniversary of the first ascent of Mt Everest, a new book published this week collects photographs from the other New Zealander in the 1953 British Everest Expedition.

Danielle Wright details some of the best Anzac parades and services in Auckland for families.

A holocaust survivor and one of the last remaining Jews to be saved by Oskar Schindler hopes her story can help prevent the horrors she witnessed happening again.

A grass-roots protest against a planned Rotorua Eastern Arterial (REA) route is gaining momentum with hundreds of people taking to the internet to voice their opposition.

New Zealand could play a role in repealing Papua New Guinean sorcery legislation following an Easter "witch-hunt", Amnesty International says.

These days your "mobile communications centre" fits in the palm of your hand - but in 1992 you needed a custom-built car to take work on the road.

Alexia Santamaria joins Mt Maunganui's magnificent men in their flying machines.

Police are considering trying to ban gang patches in New Brighton, Christchurch, after a flare up between gang members and ongoing intimidation.

When confronted with a truly gruesome historical visage, the inclination of many people is to avert their gaze, in the hope something unseen becomes unknown, and then eventually forgotten.

Oscar-winning movie Argo cut New Zealand out of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis credits, but former NZ Embassy worker Maureen Campbell-White wants to set the record straight.

You could tell what type of man Captain James Cook was by looking at his signatures, says a historian.