Press Releases

New Zealand’s top achieving sports women have been honoured in the country’s premier awards with world champion shot-putter Valerie Vili and the Evers-Swindell rowing twins taking the main prizes.

New Zealand’s prominence in the movie world has been enhanced with a host of 2010 Oscar nominations, including nine for 'Avatar' and nine Kiwis recognised for their work in the film industry.

Sustainability will be on show at New Zealand’s premier garden festival, the 2010 Ellerslie International Flower Show in Christchurch.

An American couple have just completed their holiday dream trip in New Zealand after winning an online luxury travel auction.

A former street kid turned scientist and inventor has been capped New Zealander of the Year in the country’s inaugural awards to honour extraordinary and inspiring Kiwis.

Same sex parents at New Zealand’s royal albatross colony successfully hatched their first chick on Monday (1.02.10).

It may sound like fantasy but New Zealand’s Department of Conservation (DOC) has just listed a real-life dream job.

The curtain has fallen on another successful World Buskers’ Festival in Christchurch.

A Māori cultural expert who worked with Clint Eastwood on his latest movie 'Invictus' was humbled by the respect shown towards the haka and the New Zealand All Blacks.

New Zealand’s rare celebrity parrot, Sirocco the kakapo, has been officially appointed as the world’s first “spokesbird for conservation”.