Press Releases

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

New Zealand author Patricia Grace has won the 2008 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

Rotorua’s world famous thermal activity has generated the first New Zealand Qualmark Green award.