The 13-year-old lead star of 'The Strength of Water', due to hit New Zealand cinemas this week, has his own real life story to tell involving the harrowing path from cancer victim to world screen.

Dolphins are renowned for helping humans in trouble at sea but a group of fishermen off New Zealand’s Northland coast have returned the favour by freeing a dolphin caught in a fishing long-line.

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.

New Zealand’s South Island resort of Queenstown will live up to its party reputation next week as hundreds of gay men and women celebrate Gay Ski Week NZ.

Savvy travellers who want to meet the locals and save money while holidaying in New Zealand will benefit from a new network of Kiwi hosts.

Times may be challenging but many New Zealanders are still ready to show their big hearts, and next week they will have an official opportunity to do that as the country celebrates a unique goodwill fest.

A programme to save an endangered bird is having a commercial spin-off for New Zealand’s lucrative wine-growing industry.

Passionate Kiwi rugby supporters around the world are lining up to voice their support for the All Blacks as they play Australia tomorrow (22.08.09) in Sydney.

Whakatane – a small east coast town in New Zealand’s North Island – wants to become ‘Kiwi capital of the world’, claiming it’s the only place on earth where it’s possible to hear kiwis calling from the main street.

It seems the global pinch is providing a positive creative spin-off for New Zealand’s largest art event - the Montana World of WearableArt Awards (WOW) in Wellington.