The All Whites are coming home as national heroes, after the plucky New Zealand side overcame impossible odds to emerge as the toast of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Rugby fans who stay afloat on cruise ships that will provide accommodation during the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand will find themselves in the heart of the action.

An ornate taua waka (Māori war canoe) is being shipped from Auckland to Valencia to mark the official handover of the America’s Cup from the previous cup host city to the new hosts.

New Zealand has become a giant catwalk for some of the world’s most beautiful young women – as the latest episodes of hit TV series 'America’s Next Top Model' screen in the US.

Never mind the New Zealand government’s pending national cycleway, a couple of cycling Americans in their seventies have already created the Great Southern Cycle Route.

Te Ana Ngāi Tahu Rock Art Centre – an important new cultural tourism attraction housing a significant Māori art collection – will open in Timaru, New Zealand next week.

On a remote stretch of beach on the Chatham Islands, researchers have unearthed the oldest known bird fossils from New Zealand.

Visitors to the International Antarctic Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand, could be surprised to learn that feeding the parking meter is helping to save penguins.

With selection of a New Zealand woman to ski to the South Pole in next year’s Commonwealth Women’s Antarctic expedition in the final stages, two Kiwi hopefuls are enduring arduous training in sweltering heat to prepare for life on the ice.

New Zealand's biggest scientific voyage has returned with a treasure trove of new marine life.