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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.

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.