With 50 countries confirmed to compete, the 2010 World Rowing Championships at Karapiro in the North Island will be the biggest international sport event in New Zealand since the 1990 Commonwealth Games.

An enterprising New Zealand chocolate maker has put a tongue-in-cheek spin on swine flu by producing a novel chocolate bar with a medicinal filling.

From 12 December Australian travellers will be able to take advantage of direct flights into the central North Island of New Zealand.

A bunch of intrepid Kiwis on scooters are preparing to brave New Zealand’s Southern Alps on a winter-time expedition – the Tranz Alpine Scooter Safari – that will take them across the South Island.

British Disabled Ski Team members, in Queenstown for the 100% Pure New Zealand Winter Games, took time out from their racing schedule to play with gravity at the Shotover Canyon Swing.

A New Zealand company has applied technology it developed for a foldable kayak to the biochemistry world.

Salmon lollipops and truffle eggs in mini ice-cream cones will tempt New Zealand’s Prime Minister and other guests at the opening of Savour NZ - a three day culinary extravaganza in Auckland this weekend.

Auckland will host the solid gold Football World Cup trophy during a whistle-stop New Zealand visit on 27 April.

Soccer superstar David Beckham is coming to New Zealand in December.

A tiny slice of New Zealand paradise is up for sale – an entire village for a cool $1 million.