New Zealand may have been dubbed the Land of the Long White Cloud by the Maori people, but for many it's now the land of the short stubby hobbit. The country's fantastic landscapes are famously ...

New Zealand now offers a Digital Nomad Visa option for Americans looking to stay and work in the country—with no minimum income requirement. Here's what to know.

Gandalf forgetting Lord of the Rings' Blue Wizards' names in The Hobbit was even funnier than the mildly insulting put-down ...

Stan Bicknell is facing an agonising wait after the audition of a lifetime with unconventional prog rock group Primus.

"Seeking a well-mannered, affable individual with original sensibility and aesthetic, possessing a desire to open new doors in the ... Stan Bicknell down in Hobbit land'. I could almost hear ...

In the abstract, all musicals are weird. People don’t just start singing at dramatic moments in real life, so the genre already requires viewers to buy into significant suspension of disbelief. As a ...

New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand.

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By Amelia Nierenberg Reporting from London New Zealand relaxed its visa requirements for remote workers on Monday, as the country looked to spur economic growth by courting “digital nomads ...

WELLINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - The Cook Islands lie halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii and are made up of 15 islands and atolls spread over 700 square miles (1.9 million square kilometres ...