Around 100,000 people are expected at Western Springs Lakeside Park in Auckland today for the annual Pasifika festival.

Meet the iwi who have fought for years to restore the reputation of Mokomoko, wrongly hanged for a notorious murder.

Experts claim to have solved one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century: the real cause of the Hindenburg air disaster. And they name static electricity as the culprit.

Researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum have discovered the scale of the Holocaust is more extensive than previously known, the New York Times reports.

Sheriden Rhodes has a pilgrimage to Liverpool to find the Beatles – and her dad.

Tamati Patuwai (Ngati Whatua) tells Elisabeth Easther what he loves about living in Glen Innes, and how much the area has changed since he was a boy

English environmentalist Zoe Young has repeated the journey her grandmother made in 1913 to mourn the death of her husband, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, on the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole.

They should never have been on the bus. But a mix-up with their booking led to 36 people hopping aboard a dilapidated coach that would become a death-trap.

Alan Perrott discovers once you start rattling around in the branches of your family tree, you never know what might be shaken loose.

Prime Minister John Key shared tales of his Jewish mother's escape from Nazi-controlled Austria at the United Holocaust Memorial Day event this morning.

Alfred Russel Wallace is far from a household name, but he changed the world.

More than 200 Kelly descendants, and dozens of public onlookers and regular churchgoers, attended the noon service dedicated to the bushranger at St Patrick's Church in the Victorian town of Wangaratta. The family will bury Kelly's bones in an unmarked gr