Auckland

Former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson will bring some beach chic to Air New Zealand Fashion Week (ANZFW) in Auckland next month (21 – 25 September 2009).

The quest to find New Zealand’s own ‘Bachelor’ is hotting up with a tourism promotion timed to coincide with the airing of the hit US reality show on NZ television.

New Zealand wines have taken the top awards for syrah and sauvignon blanc at the International Wine Challenge in London - considered the world’s most prestigious independent wine competition.

Whale watching and the study of New Zealand’s diverse marine life is a major tourist attraction and a national pastime, but come winter the recreational activity takes on a more serious note.

A vintage motorbike once worked on by Kiwi motorcycling legend Burt Munro, of 'The World’s Famous Indian' fame, and owned by a fellow speedster, is now part of the décor in an Auckland café.

Auckland’s Sky Tower, the southern hemisphere’s tallest building, now has another claim to fame. It’s just set a new record for the largest number of fire-fighters wearing full apparatus, in a New Zealand building at one time, not fighting a fire.

Auckland’s iconic harbour bridge is about to turn 50, and to mark the golden milestone the city is inviting 50 Australians to c'mon over to help celebrate.

Billionaire New Zealand luxury lodge owners Julian and Josie Robertson have gifted NZ$115 million of major international artworks to the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.

Penguin stars of ice athletics are playing the audience at Kelly Tarlton’s - Auckland’s family waterfront experience – showing off their ball-handling and feet-tapping skills.

Australian and American fire brigades are to take on their Kiwi counterparts in an unusual challenge that will see 349 firefighters in full kit racing to the top of Auckland’s Sky Tower.