Press Releases

Around a hundred mouse sized giant weta have been released into the wild at Karori Sanctuary in Wellington.

A rare home town performance by Kiwi comedy duo Flight of the Conchords has raised $70,000 for Jemaine Clement’s old high school in the small Wairarapa town of Masterton.

The countdown is on ... from tomorrow (9.09.2010) there's only one year to go until Rugby World Cup 2011, and balloted sales for prized tickets are about to enter the second phase.

Rugby fans in New Zealand for the Rugby World Cup 2011 can expect to experience the Real New Zealand - as well as the world’s third biggest sporting event.

A select group of native kiwi will get right royal treatment when they fly with the air force as part of New Zealand’s largest-ever wildlife transfer next week.

Work on New Zealand’s national cycleway network is to get a ‘quick start’ this summer at several locations throughout the country.

Coronet Peak, in Queenstown, will become the hub of international race training this month as it welcomes back some of the world’s best ski racers.

Queenstown takes a bow in Bollywood’s latest runaway box office hit ‘I Hate Luv Storys’ - a romantic comedy starring Imran Khan and Sonam Kapoor.

Queenstown is vying for a square on the first-ever worldwide Monopoly board.

A boutique luxury lodge near Queenstown, in New Zealand’s South Island, has been named as one of the hottest new hotels in the world.