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After witnessing a top Super 14 rugby team taking on the Royal New Zealand Ballet on the turf, Kiwis are wondering what's coming next in the rugby world.

A South Island restaurant that began in the paddock of a family farm has just been named restaurant of the year in the Cuisine New Zealand annual awards.

The rural North Island town of Taihape is bracing itself for a flurry of unusual flying objects when competitors take part in the indigenous New Zealand sport of gumboot throwing

New Zealand’s reputation for agricultural innovation will stretch from the farm to the catwalk at the 2008 Air New Zealand Fashion Week in September.

New Zealand-born Hollywood superstar Russell Crowe is the 2404th star on the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood Boulevard.

A fleet of traditional vaka canoes will leave New Zealand next week to sail across the Pacific, re-enacting one of the world’s greatest migrations.

It’s called the silly season and no wonder! While most Kiwis celebrate Christmas in a traditional way, the summer sun and pending holidays sometimes incite out-of-the-ordinary festive behaviour in New Zealand.

A new ‘kiwi creche’ in the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand has opened, with four 20-day old chicks reaping the benefits.

The bid to make New Zealand schools a healthier place will take another positive step when new government guidelines come into force next month.

A team of scientists from New Zealand and Italy is on its way to Antarctica's northern coast.