Press Releases

New Zealand Olympic medalist Nick Willis has scored another career highlight by winning the Fifth Avenue Mile street race in New York.

Climate change and its effect on the world will be highlighted this month at a festival in the New Zealand city of Christchurch - gateway to the last great wilderness on earth.

A spectacular multimedia experience opening on September 27 crowns the 10th birthday celebrations of Te Papa Tongarewa, New Zealand’s national museum.

The rarest Kiwis in the world have launched their breeding season by producing a record number of eggs.

Six of New Zealand’s best surf breaks will get national park status if a new coastal policy proposed by the Department of Conservation goes ahead.

Wind sport enthusiasts from around the globe are gathering for the inaugural world championships of an unusual sport invented in New Zealand.

Emirates has been named the official airline for the next Rugby World Cup to be held in New Zealand in 2011.

International yachting teams have raced to submit entries for the new Louis Vuitton Pacific Series to be sailed in Auckland – New Zealand’s ‘city of sails’ – in February 2009.

Wellington costume designer Nadine Jaggi, who works for the Oscar-winning WETA Workshop, is the supreme award-winner at the 2008 Montana World of WearableArt.

A satellite tracking device invented by an innovative Kiwi in the farming back-blocks of the central North Island, has been picked up by international aviation giant Cessna.