The dance hit “I Will Survive” battled its way through the sound system at Te Marua Speedway—and I really, really hoped that I would. Once I finished my sausage-on-a-stick it would be my turn to head ...

No boats are allowed—competitors must wade to their hunting grounds. Taupō’s highest densities of catfish are found in these warm, muddy shallows around Motuoapa Bay: a 1995 census caught 639 in a ...

In the middle of September, cold air sliding down off the Antarctic Plateau punched into mid-latitudes south of Tasmania, swung around a deep low, then hit New Zealand from the west. Damaging winds ...

“Here’s who I am. Here’s where I come from. Here’s where I’m going to.” Tumama Faumui, a Tongan student at Kelston Boys’ High School, sums up the meaning of his performance at this year’s Auckland ...

Carrying a red hold-all, 22-year-old Neil Roberts strode through the darkness towards the doors of Wairere House in Wanganui—home of the ‘Wanganui Computer’. It was some 25 minutes past midnight on ...

New Zealand’s forests were cleared at a record pace, and from this destruction, a sport arose: who can fell a tree the fastest? Competitive woodchopping transformed the labour of forestry into a ...

A metre and bare milliseconds separate Johnny Racz and Greg Baynes as they vie for the Burt Munro Challenge Trophy on Oreti Beach, near Invercargill. During the 1960s, Munro himself tore up this beach ...