I just went back to New Zealand (where I was born) for the first time in 10 years. Some of my best memories from down there as a kid were spending time fishing, either with my granddad or just surfcasting, so needless to say that was a big priority on th...

Peter Jackson, director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy has agreed to now make "The Hobbit".  Expect the first of these around December 2010.

I was surprised when I heard this, since NZ is pretty liberal.  It just bans the use of footage taken within parliment to be used as satire, but it's still a blow to free speech.  Here's the NZ Herald Story on it.

A man in New Zealand is charged with throwing a hedgehog at a teenager, a newspaper reports.

I got back last night from a really productive week in Wellington meeting people and attending Webstock, a conference for web designers but universally relevant.A big thank-you to the organisers: the event was well-run, aside from highly patchy wi-fi, a...

Purpose-grown forests to produce biofuels could meet all New Zealand's transport fuel requirements within 40 years, according to a study by the Crown research institute Scion.Chief executive Tom Richardson told the Herald yesterday...

Online advertising in the first quarter of the year grew 67.2 percent from a year ago to new record $46 million, according to a survey reported by NZPA (via www.publicitas.com). IAB Insight said the advertising was up 17.91 percent up on the previous qua...

Police are investigating "serious" accusations made against four England rugby players who are on tour in New Zealand.

One of the charities New Zealand First gave money to has returned the donation.Party leader Winston Peters announced on Sunday the $158,000 it wrongly spent during the last election had been shared out to "worthy causes" but would...

Police had to use road spikes to stop a car suspected of being involved in two ram raids in Christchurch overnight.Two people have been arrested and police are working to establish whether the same alleged offenders were involved...