Press Releases

A major new discount card has been launched which is set to inject more than a million dollars back into Maori tourism every year.

Cavers exploring deep inside Kahurangi National Park, in the north west of New Zealand’s South Island, have discovered a new passage through rock that is 500 million years old.

New Zealand’s conservation campaign to save the kakapo – the world’s rarest parrot – has reached a new milestone with confirmation that the population of threatened birds has cracked through the 100 mark.

Karapiro Wellness Resort is New Zealand’s first hotel to adopt a carbon offset programme designed at allowing guests to leave pampered but guilt-free.

International athletes will literally follow in the footsteps of New Zealand’s legendary runner and coach Arthur Lydiard when they race in a new marathon that covers his old Auckland training ground.

Scientists have discovered a vast new underwater colony labelled 'Brittlestar City' south of New Zealand.

New Zealand researchers studying a rare and endangered species of penguin have uncovered a previously unknown species that disappeared about 500 years ago.

A new rugby trophy contested between the All Blacks and the English will honour the life of Sir Edmund Hillary and mark both his love of the game and his links with Britain.

New Zealand has made another leap into the record books by becoming the first country in the world to create a new skydiving qualification for tandem jumps.

A New Zealand-based astronomy organisation has discovered a tiny star with its own planet slightly larger than Earth, 3000 light years away.