Top news photos of 2020
A global pandemic, iwi-led Covid checkpoints, Waitangi Day festivities, politics, record-breaking rainfall, floods and fires — 2020 had it all.
Read moreA global pandemic, iwi-led Covid checkpoints, Waitangi Day festivities, politics, record-breaking rainfall, floods and fires — 2020 had it all.
Read moreThe author encounters takahē, kleptomaniac weka and naked trampers on New Zealand’s longest Great Walk.
Read moreWhat drives more than 1000 people a year to walk the length of New Zealand? I decided to find out.
Read moreSir Hek Busby spent a lifetime building bridges – over rivers, between peoples, and across the mighty Pacific Ocean.
Read moreBill Guest only left North Hokianga once and reckons it was only luck that brought him back alive. The 96-year-old veteran shares some of the horror, and humour, of World War II.
Read moreRangimārie Mules and Jared Hiakita didn’t want to start their life together shackled to a giant mortgage. Their solution was a tiny house on a trailer.
Read moreThree days of wildly beautiful coastline — and chances are you won’t have to share it with anyone.
Read moreIn the bush west of Kerikeri, a small town in northern New Zealand, a Korean spiritual leader says he is building a global headquarters for an organisation of 100 million members.
Read moreA selection of my favourite images from Waitangi Day, the anniversary of the signing of New Zealand’s Treaty of Waitangi, taken since 2010.
Read moreFrom a new Prime Minister’s visit to a tearful whale stranding and a mass haka in the rain, these are a few of my favourite news photos of 2018.
Read moreIn 1976 Paul Thomas promised his mother he would bring his brother’s remains home. In 2018 he finally succeeded.
Read moreWhat makes a group of Dutch students so passionate about Māori culture that they travel halfway around the world each year to take part in Waitangi Day festivities?
Read moreOnce a year the Wild West saddles up and rides into Waimamaku for a day of highway robbery.
Read moreThe fascinating and little-known tale of how Queen Victoria came to have a Māori godson.
Read moreHow a ‘New Zealand monument’ designed by eccentric Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser ended up being built in Holland instead.
Read moreProlific author Brian Parkinson has become a leading authority on New Zealand’s flora and fauna, despite having no formal qualifications,
Read moreCould the Te Paki Coastal Track around New Zealand’s northern tip qualify as a Great Walk? I decided to brave the mosquitoes to find out.
Read moreSeventy-five years after being conscripted into the Dutch East Army during World War II, a Northland man’s service – and his ordeal on the notorious Burma railroad – has finally been recognised.
Read moreA Northland woman’s quest to discover the truth behind a century-year-old maritime tragedy has brought two peoples together – and brought peace to hundreds of “hungry ghosts”.
Read moreTravelling around East Cape in search of the easternmost pub in New Zealand – by bicycle.
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