Press Releases

The record-breaking 2009 winter season that’s kept New Zealand ski resorts humming is set to ramp up as the inaugural 100% Pure New Zealand Winter Games get underway this weekend.

New Zealand is in the grip of a wintry blast that's caused minor disruption on the roads but thrilled the snow sports fraternity who’re currently entertaining some of the world’s elite skiers and snowboarders.

Winter’s first heavy snowfall has blanketed Queenstown overnight, just in time for the start of the Queenstown Winter Festival.

Smelly kiwis and other whiffy native birds would be better protected if they used deodorant, according to a Canterbury biological scientist looking into predator-prone New Zealand species.

The small rural town of Kimbolton - in the North Island’s Manawatu region - is little known to many Kiwis let alone the international community, but now some local school children have put their home and New Zealand firmly on the world map.

A Kiwi woman now claims something few others can – she has jumped out of a plane 10,000 times.

Top snowboarders and skiers with a taste for the wild side are preparing to descend on one of New Zealand’s most remote mountainous regions.

A cold southerly storm has blown good fortune over New Zealand’s ski fields providing the perfect start to the ski season.

Willowbank’s newest residents are just a little on the porky side – but that’s not worrying rangers who are excited about the latest arrivals at the Christchurch - New Zealand animal sanctuary.

Japanese and New Zealand art works based on ancient traditions share the limelight in the latest exhibition at Dunedin’s award-winning Otago Museum.