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New Zealand has 2,200 native flowering plants and 85% of them grow nowhere else, including some spectacular displays that ...

On December 24, Air New Zealand flight N27 took off from San Francisco en route to Auckland, New Zealand. While that might seem like an ideal way to get home for the holidays, there was one ...

Wellington and Wairarapa are set to be pounded by gusts of 90km/h across the day while 22 hours of rain is forecast for the ...

Christmas is a rare day to be born in New Zealand. Let alone to be having twins, as was the case for Lee Scanlon in Westport.