The Herald online takes a look back at the life and times of the first to summit Mount Everest.

Today's air balloon tragedy in the Wairarapa, in which 11 people were killed, is the seventh worst aviation disaster in New Zealand history.

Scientists have identified a molecule that could lead to the development of a drug that mimics the effect of restraint.

For centuries, scientists and historians have argued over why Stonehenge was built and, even more puzzlingly, how.

Dana Johannsen visits a living piece of Northumberland history that vanquishes all traces of castle fatigue.

After 77 years and four generations in business, the Baker family are selling up their Katikati timber processing plant and sawmill...