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Fifty years ago 150 riders from a dozen biker gangs ran riot through the heart of Palmerston North, a counterculture incursion unlikely to ever be repeated.
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It's hard to accept that this spectacular gully was mostly dug by hand.
A Prosperous period of Dunedin’s colonial past is being uncovered in the city’s centre as work begins on a new multi-storey office space for up to...
It was New Zealand's most decorated infantry battalion in WWII, but over 600 men of the 28th Māori Battalion never received their war medals.
NZ Herald
The portrait is of Ngā Puhi chief Kamariera Te Hau Takiri Wharepapa.
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It might look like nothing is being done to the Toroa ferry, which has sat next to a motorway since 2001. Inside, though, volunteers have been busy.
Shifting the statue of the late Rev Dr Stuart to make room for a turning loop for the electric trams. — Otago Witness, 14.3.1922. At a meeting...
An Australian veterans’ association is honouring the first recorded New Zealander to die at Gallipoli, an Otago soldier who bridged the gap between...
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Find a two-storey wheelhouse, surfboards and a rich collection of Māori taonga at this innovative museum.
The earthquakes have made the city a unique archaeological paradise.
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Nicola McCloy and photographer Jane King delve into the history of some of the country’s most interesting character buildings.
RNZ
Putting New Zealand's own history of the centre of the country's schooling is is the sign of a mature society and will help address inequities, educators say.
The Conversation
The resting place of Shackleton’s ill-fated ship is now an international heritage site, and a reminder of how Antarctica’s place in our collective consciousness has changed since the ‘heroic age’.
The Conversation
Accurately calculating a ship’s position by hand in 1915 was easy compared to what the New Zealand-born navigator Frank Worsley had to do next.
The Conversation
Accurately calculating a ship’s position by hand in 1915 was easy compared to what the New Zealand-born navigator Frank Worsley had to do next.
NZ Herald
Explorers and researchers, battling freezing temperatures, have located Endurance.
The Conversation
What the world stands to lose due to Putin’s unprovoked war.
RNZ
The $170,000 of extra funding will help ease the pressure on the trust due to insurance hikes and the effects of Covid-19, say district councillors.
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