4+ day, 6+ hour ago  (893+ words) Waih-based actor and writer Mark Wright plays nine characters in his one-man show Voices from Gallipoli, which he is performing at Auckland's Q Theatre in the lead-up to Anzac Day. Actor Mark Wright shares the personal story behind his moving…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (340+ words) The Japanese Embassy is opposing the erection of a statue in the Auckland suburb of Takapuna that would honour the 200, 000 women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Army during World War II. The statue - depicting a young girl - would be…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (882+ words) Defence Attach" Colonel Gerbe Verhaaf (left) presents the Mobilisation War Cross to Joseph and Aaron Gielen. Dutch and M'ori lineage intertwined when a Rotorua family received a belated World War II medal on behalf of their patriarch. A letter from…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (892+ words) Thomas Coughlan: Christopher Luxon grapples with ghost of Covid response as new disaster looms May 21, 1945: a German boy pens a high-spirited letter to his family from a civilian internment camp in liberated France. "You will be astonished to learn I…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (592+ words) Glenn Furniss of Napier had his father's WWII and Korean War medals stolen during a burglary in 2024; some have now been returned with the help of police and voluntary organisation Medals Reunited New Zealand (MRNZ). Stolen war medals dropped by…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (1341+ words) NZ Herald Liberals know their ship is going down. During the past 10 years there have been hundreds of books about this historic moment, supplemented by essays, papers, reports, studies, all denouncing the populist turn, explaining why liberalism is the one…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (903+ words) Time has been influential for Rotorua local Bill Groves since 1926. For nearly 80 years, the former watchmaker helped keep other people on schedule, repairing watches and clocks until three years ago. His work ranged from delicate wristwatches to larger public timepieces…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (664+ words) Most people celebrate milestone birthdays with cake and candles. John "JC" Mathewson chose to swim around Mauao. The 70-year-old Mount Maunganui resident and recently retired Air New Zealand A320 captain and former RNZAF A4 Skyhawk fighter pilot completed the swim earlier this…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1777+ words) Infamous for Hitler's mass Nazi Party rallies and the post-World War II international war crimes trials, the German city of Nuremberg is stepping out of the Third Reich's long shadow by holding close to the past, rather than trying to…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (559+ words) A World War II airman from Gisborne, killed along with two others in a flying accident in Wales, has been honoured with the unveiling of a memorial stone. Sub-Lieutenant William Seddon Appleby, Sub-Lieutenant Ernest Hartley Green and Sub-Lieutenant Joe Lupton…...