Press Releases

Queenstown, New Zealand’s picturesque South Island resort, has been voted third best city by a global travel and leisure magazine.

More than 4000 young Catholics are visiting New Zealand as part of an international pilgrimage to Australia to see Pope Benedict XVI for World Youth Day 2008.

A New Zealander will try to break the world record for the most bungy jumps in 24 hours when he leaps off the Auckland Harbour Bridge next month.

New Zealand’s commitment to environmental sustainability has paid off with the country scoring seventh place out of more than 140 countries for its effort.

New Zealand’s giant inflatable rugby ball which became a major tourist attraction at the Rugby World Cup in Paris last year, has scored a new position beside another famous landmark -this time at London’s Tower Bridge.

Male tuatara could face a lonely future as global warming continues to affect New Zealand’s living dinosaurs.

New Zealand’ motorsport champion Scott Dixon will enjoy a good old Kiwi barbecue in New York before his next IndyCar series – thanks to a group of ex-pat New Zealanders.

Heavy snowfalls over New Zealand's North Island ski resorts on the Central Plateau might have brought chilly temperatures but scientists are more interested in a hotspot that remains in the Mt Ruapehu crater lake.

New Zealand comedy duo Flight of the Conchords' television show has been shortlisted for this year's Emmy awards.

A New Zealand artist whose work included a Maori version of the London Tube map has managed to break into the lucrative British market with an exhibition sell out.