Press Releases

As summer draws to a close and hikers prepare to hang up their boots for the season, New Zealand is enjoying new status in the international walking community with Te Araroa – the long pathway that stretches from one end of the country to the other.

The first New Zealand ski field of the season is set to open tomorrow morning (5.06.2010) – just in time for the long Queen’s Birthday weekend.

New Zealand’s oldest driver – who clocks in at 104 – is older than the first Model T motorcar that rolled off Henry Ford’s production line and she’s in good company.

Roll up … roll up… the world’s most talented bartenders will be visiting New Zealand’s ultimate playground Queenstown, this month for a week of extreme cocktail making, parties and adrenalin-charged activities.

The first of New Zealand’s ‘Great Rides’ – a national cycle trail project showcasing some of the country’s most spectacular cycling destinations – will open tomorrow (20.11.2010).

After completing a mammoth 50-day expedition, the first New Zealand woman to ski to the South Pole is due home on 15 January and looking forward to sunshine and a belated Christmas dinner.

Kiwi lifestyle and the dramatic scenery of New Zealand’s Central Otago region are prime ingredients in a new television series fronted by celebrity cook Annabel Langbein.

A science researcher is convinced New Zealand’s extinct Moa birds are alive and living in bush in the middle of the North Island.

Another young Kiwi ‘popera’ singer will prove New Zealand’s got talent too when she teams up with Britain’s legendary TV talent show discovery, Paul Potts, on his Australasian tour next month.

New Zealand's greatest hero - Sir Edmund Hillary has died at the age of 88.