Press Releases

A South Island wildlife reserve has notched up its most successful Kiwi breeding season ever having raised and released 48 chicks.

New Zealand hit comedy duo Flight of the Conchords have won a prestigious Grammy Award.

A Kiwi adventure ride company has been given a US$1 million grant by internet giant Google to develop a human-powered transport system to take to the world.

New Zealand’s national Māori language week – te wiki o te reo Māori - will get a major boost next week with the launch of Google Māori.

A free falling frenzy of sky diving flair is filling the skies above Motueka this week as New Zealand’s largest annual sky diving event celebrates a decade in the air.

Queenstown – New Zealand’s adventure capital – is giving mountain biking enthusiasts new thrills with a spectacular gondola ride to the top of the trails and a new bike park.

It might sound like a golfer's pipe dream but a plan by two young Kiwi lawyers to travel the world playing a different golf course every day in 2010, has more behind it than pure indulgence.

It might sound like the great escape, but when international and national golfers head for The Hills next month (March 2009) they’ll be going to New Zealand’s most exclusive golf course to attend the country’s premier golfing tournament.

An on line US golf publication has put a positive new spin on New Zealand as an ideal golfing destination.

Sixteen years on from her Oscar-winning performance in The Piano, Kiwi actress Anna Paquin has added a Golden Globe to her collection of awards.