Press Releases

New Zealand has won the battle for Middle-earth. Oscar winning Wellington film maker Peter Jackson, is set to make two movies based on The Hobbit.

The world's best bottled water comes from New Zealand, according to a survey bya British magazine.

He’s one of New Zealand’s hottest new exports but Kiwi comedian Rhys Darby, reckons there’s no place like home.

New Zealand’s Weta Workshop has won the battle to create costumes for a new Hollywood blockbuster featuring well-known superheroes.

A former mayor turned environmental entrepreneur has been named as one of 50 people who could save the world.

Karapiro Wellness Resort is New Zealand’s first hotel to adopt a carbon offset programme designed at allowing guests to leave pampered but guilt-free.

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

It produces some of the world's finest wine, and now the New Zealand town of Blenheim has taken the crown as the country's sunniest centre.

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

New Zealand will farewell one of its greatest sons, Sir Edmund Hillary, in a state funeral on January 22nd.