1 day ago
A man was recovering in a hospital Monday after surviving a plunge from the 15th floor of his New Zealand apartment building.
7 days ago
Hobbits, elves and dragons appear to be luring tourists to New Zealand as fans await their first glimpse of the second movie in "The Hobbit" trilogy.
12 days ago
"They told me Canada was very cold, Australia was very hot, but New Zealand, they said, was just right," Edwards says.
29 days ago
China has blocked all New Zealand beef and sheep meat that has arrived there in the past two or three weeks, said Dan Coup, trade and economic manager for the Meat Industry Association of New...
32 days ago
New Zealand's highest court has agreed to hear an appeal by Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and three colleagues as they seek to avoid extradition to the United States.
33 days ago
The budget indicated that after several years of deficits, New Zealand is on track to return to a surplus in the year beginning July 2014.
40 days ago
The government Wednesday announced a sale price of 2.5 New Zealand dollars ($2.10) for shares in Mighty River Power, raising a total of NZ$1.7 billion ($1.4 billion).
41 days ago
The New Zealand Herald newspaper reports that Reserve Bank Governor Graeme Wheeler told a parliamentary committee Wednesday it had intervened recently.
96 days ago
New Zealand lawmakers for a second time have voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill allowing same-sex marriage, virtually assuring its passage into law in the coming weeks.
106 days ago
New Zealand says it will sell 49 percent of a state-owned energy company and list the shares on the country's stock exchange in about mid-May.
106 days ago
News Corp. said Sunday that it is selling its 44 percent stake in Sky Network Television Ltd., a pay TV broadcasting service in New Zealand.
108 days ago
Defending champion Michael Hendry of New Zealand shared a three-way lead on Friday after two rounds of the New Zealand PGA championship.
109 days ago
Air New Zealand said Thursday its long-distance international flights are profitable again for the first time in five years after it axed its Hong Kong to London route and upped its offerings in...
110 days ago
Clinton Duffy, a shark expert with the Department of Conservation, said New Zealand is a hotspot for great white sharks, and other potentially lethal species also inhabit the waters.
111 days ago
A shark has killed a man off a New Zealand beach that was closed after the rare attack there.
116 days ago
A thirsty and thin royal penguin has been found stranded on a New Zealand beach more than 1,000 miles from its sub-Antarctic home.
117 days ago
It is expected to exhaust the NZ$6 billion held by the Earthquake Commission, the government insurer created after a 1931 quake killed 256 and led private insurers to limit their coverage.
119 days ago
But Associate Minister of Health Tariana Turia says New Zealand will wait until a trade challenge in Australia plays out before introducing the new law.
119 days ago
Three New Zealand telecommunications companies say they plan to jointly build a new $60 million fiber-optic cable connecting New Zealand with Australia.
120 days ago
New Zealand has announced it will keep a small team of military personnel in Afghanistan to help coalition forces after it formally withdraws from the country in April.
125 days ago
A New Zealand coroner says soft-drink makers should consider adding health warnings after he concluded a 2-gallon-a-day Coca-Cola habit was a "substantial factor" in a woman's death.
125 days ago
New Zealand police said in a statement Wednesday they sent DNA samples to Scotland Yard at the request of British police still investigating Madeleine's disappearance.
139 days ago
In an unscientific poll conducted by The New Zealand Herald newspaper, 50 percent of respondents said they'd be fine with three-day-a-week delivery because they don't get much mail anyway.
146 days ago
A 2011 survey by the New Zealand Companion Animal Council found that 48 percent of New Zealand households owned at least one cat, significantly higher than in other developed nations.
153 days ago
Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings said Tuesday that it was buying EnviroWaste Services for 490 million New Zealand dollars ($412 million) in cash.
