New Zealand were crowned HSBC Sevens World Series champions at Murrayfield, despite watching on as South Africa scored a dramatic victory against Australia to win the Emirates Airline Edinburgh Sevens.

New Zealand is bang in the middle of the biggest and wildest waters on the planet: the Southern Ocean.

A new Waikato horticultural export company has been awarded a silver medal at the Chelsea Flower Show this week - and received a visit from the Queen.

Tui Brewery’s Nick Rogers has joined in on the Wellywood debate, saying the proposed Wellington sign will detract from the awe-inspiring Tuiwood sign in Mangatanokia.

 Wellington poet Kate Camp will spend a year in Berlin from September 2011 as this year’s recipient of the Creative New Zealand $60,000 Berlin Writers’ Residency.

Groundbreaking research at the University of Otago has found a way to stem growth in some cancer cells, which could lead the development of new treatments.

Prime Minister John Key today announced that the Queen has approved the appointment of Lieutenant General Jerry Mateparae, Governor-General Designate, as an Additional Knight Grand Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit and as an Additi

New Zealand's rarest parrot, the kakapo, is the engaging subject of the winning book for the Royal Society of New Zealand's 2011 Science Book Prize, announced tonight in Auckland.

 The shot of Seve playing a shot while on his knees was selected by TVNZ News when breaking the news of his death.

Kiwi DJ Zane Lowe has been named broadcaster of the year for the 3rd time by the Sony Radio Academy Awards in the UK on Monday.