Members of the South African rugby team paid a surprise visit to the RWC 2011 volunteer workforce centre in Taupo, signing autographs and posing for photos, as a thank you for the many hours of hard work by the volunteers during the Tournament so far.

A new bridge at the Weka Point Scout Camp near Rissington will restore one of the main features of the one hundred year old facility.

The camp was developed in 1911 and is located on land at a bend in the Mangone River on Puketitiri Road.

The Greymouth Heritage Trust has won the Supreme Award at the 2011 TrustPower Grey District Community Awards.

The Awards were announced and presented tonight (Monday) at a function at the Ashley Hotel in Greymouth.

MGallery is proud to announce the opening of Hotel Muse Bangkok Langsuan, the newest member to the MGallery collection of unique hotels.

On Thursday 6 October the sixth Sport Wellington Big Annual Buggy Walk will wheel its way through the spring blooms of the Wellington Botanic Gardens.

The October Buggy Walk is the largest of the monthly buggy walks, tying in with the end of the Botanic Gardens Spring Festival.

Christchurch enjoys a very special milestone this weekend - as the 2011/12 Antarctic Season commences, the city commemorates not only the 100th anniversary of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's legendary expedition to the South Pole, but a renewed international commitment to Christchurch as a gateway

Mark your calendars now? the dates for the Southern Hemisphere's biggest winter party are officially locked and loaded for next year!

The multi award-winning American Express Queenstown Winter Festival will take centre stage in Queenstown, New Zealand, from 22 June to 1 July 2012.

The animals are gathering for the most fascinating event of the year, the annual SPCA Auckland Blessing of the Animals at St Matthew-In-The-City.

Welsh Rugby Union players Huw Bennett and Shane Williams were in good voice during a recent team visit to the Waitomo Glowworm Caves.

Twenty students from Roscommon and Mt Eden Normal primary schools have had a priceless Rugby World Cup 2011 experience, courtesy of MasterCard and the New Zealand Rugby Union, attending the RWC 2011 clash between Fiji and Samoa at Eden Park yesterday.