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Move over bungy, a local volunteer group from the Manawatu town of Foxton, in the lower North Island, wants to introduce New Zealand’s latest extreme sporting thrill – a spin on the blades of the town’s landmark windmill.

The legendary love story of the Central Plateau mountains will come alive from November 2007, through a new tourism product based in New Plymouth.

Thrill seekers now have the chance to live life 'on the edge' and walk around the circumference of the SkyTower in Auckland, fifty storeys above the ground.

A newly married Wellington couple has become the envy of the rugby world having just won the first two tickets to the 2011 Rugby World Cup final in New Zealand.

A nine-year-old New Zealand boy has won a major patent prize by inventing an eco-friendly unit that turns food scraps into fertiliser without anyone having to leave the kitchen.

In case you didn’t know - underwater ambient noise around New Zealand’s coast gets louder twice a day. And now scientists have discovered why.

The FIFA under-17 Women’s World Cup has wound up in New Zealand with a nail biting final between North Korea and favourites the United States.

Air New Zealand could be running its entire domestic fleet on biofuel in the not too distant future according to the company’s chief executive Rob Fyfe.

Two Australians have set a world record by being the first to kayak across the Tasman Sea.

Recreating Bluff’s famous paua shell house as an exhibit at Canterbury Museum in Christchurch has proved a resounding success with visitors giving 100 percent positive feedback.