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Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi O Tāmaki Launches Ambitious, Wide-ranging 2025 Programme
Sunday, 16 March 2025, 10:18 pm | Auckland Writers Festival
More than 170 New Zealand writers and close to 50 international participants will appear in the programme, which is bursting with well-known literary powerhouses, global thinkers and fresh new voices. More >>
Triple Victory For Lola At Hampton Downs’ ‘Thunder At The Downs’ Weekend
Sunday, 16 March 2025, 9:58 pm | New Zealand Formula 5000 Association
Over the 14-16 March racing weekend, three thrilling races showcased the raw power and heritage of Formula 5000 machinery. More >>
Another Big Loss For Wales - At Shearing
Sunday, 16 March 2025, 9:56 pm | Shearing Sports New Zealand
It was a big day for the town with 99 shearers competing across the five grades, including 34 in the glamour Open grade, with 97 volunteers helping run the competition held alongside the town’s annual rodeo. More >>
Blistering Black Foils: New Zealand Sits In First At Rolex Los Angeles Sail Grand Prix
Sunday, 16 March 2025, 9:54 pm | New Zealand SailGP
“It was an awesome day for us – first to mark one in three races, plus two race wins so we’re very happy overall,” said New Zealand driver Peter Burling. He continued: “There’s definitely some things to improve on tomorrow, but we’ll ... More >>
Glenn Richards Takes Home Win For Lola In F5000 Race
Saturday, 15 March 2025, 8:13 pm | New Zealand Formula 5000 Association
Sunday’s two remaining races include the morning six-lap handicap start, followed by the afternoon eight lap feature, where Richards has the honour of again starting from the front. More >>
Dominant V8 Utes Win For Glen Collinson At Teretonga
Saturday, 15 March 2025, 8:12 pm | UDC V8 Utes
Teretonga is a circuit none of the drivers had raced on before - not that you’d know that from their qualifying times. Yet these Teretonga ‘virgins’ had four testing sessions, a practice and a qualifying session to learn the nuances of the ... More >>
Formula 1: Lawson Dumped Out Of Qualfying In Q1 In Melbourne Grand Prix
Saturday, 15 March 2025, 7:53 pm | RNZ
Lawson was knocked out in the first part of qualifying and will start a lowly 18th for Sunday's race. More >>
Nostalgic Musicians Perform Fond Farewell For Homegrown
Saturday, 15 March 2025, 7:42 pm | RNZ
Longtime Homegrown artists are finishing the Wellington festival on a nostalgic note. More >>
Myer Bevan Seals Last-Gasp Win For Nine-player Auckland City FC
Saturday, 15 March 2025, 7:04 pm | Auckland City FC
The club's next match is at Croatian Cultural Society against West Coast Rangers on Tuesday 18 March, kick-off at 7.30pm NZST. More >>
Luca Harrington Makes History As NZ's First Freeski Crystal Globe Winner
Friday, 14 March 2025, 7:57 pm | RNZ
Wanaka freeskier Luca Harrington has been crowned the Big Air World Cup champion after finishing third in the season-ending event in France. More >>
Mt Roskill Intermediate Welcomes FIFA Club World Cup™ Trophy
Friday, 14 March 2025, 5:29 pm | Auckland City FC
Photo:Supplied AUCKLAND, New Zealand - Auckland City FC and the prestigious FIFA Club World Cup™ Trophy Tour received a heartfelt welcome at Mount Roskill Intermediate today, with a traditional whakatau marking the occasion. The event brought together ... More >>
Project Arotake Update: Oversight Group Formed As Top Names Appointed To High-Performance Advisory, ALG
Friday, 14 March 2025, 4:28 pm | Yachting New Zealand
Yachting New Zealand has taken an important step towards implementing the recommendations from a comprehensive evaluation of its high-performance programme as it aims for even greater Olympic success at Los Angeles 2028. The Yachting New Zealand board ... More >>
SkyTower Celebrates FIFA Club World Cup™ Showcase
Friday, 14 March 2025, 4:10 pm | Auckland City FC
Hundreds of fans gathered to witness football’s most prestigious club trophy up close, celebrating Auckland City FC’s qualification for the expanded FIFA Club World Cup™ USA 2025. More >>
Fin Rah Zel Share Ethereal Pop Ballad With New Single ‘Night Sky’
Friday, 14 March 2025, 3:35 pm | Black Out Music
Written and recorded with the talented Sam Johnson at local music production hub Rhythm Ace Studio, Oakura, and mastered by Chris Chetland at KOG, ‘Night Sky’ is a sweetly balanced tune. More >>
Me Anga Whakamua – Facing The Future
Friday, 14 March 2025, 1:52 pm | New Zealand Portrait Gallery
Accompanying the exhibition is a book edited by Janet Hetaraka, which features the same striking portraits and the reflective voices of tangata whenua. This book is part of the Tuia 250 legacy, marking 250 years since the first encounters between More >>
World-First Musical Comedy About NZ’s Road Rule Fight To Premiere In Wellington
Friday, 14 March 2025, 12:06 pm | Circa Theatre
Give Way – The Musical opens at Circa on 26 April and takes audiences back to 2012, when the country’s eccentric rule favouring right-turning drivers was reversed, sparking outcry and concern. It features a cast of five, live music and original ... More >>
Tami Neilson To Headline Gore’s Country Music Honours
Friday, 14 March 2025, 11:41 am | NZ Songwriters Trust
Delivered by the NZ Songwriter’s Trust, the Country Music Honours is the stage for New Zealand’s best country songwriters and is one of 70+ events at Gore’s annual Bayleys Tussock Country – New Zealand’s Country Music Festival. More >>
Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke Announce Their New Album 'Tall Tales', Single: 'This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice'
Friday, 14 March 2025, 11:36 am | Border Music New Zealand
It follows the release last month of "Back In The Game", which signified the second time the two had collaborated on record, following the acclaimed "Beautiful People", which appeared on Mark Pritchard's "Under The Sun" solo album for Warp Records in ... More >>
NZ V Wales Shearing Test This Weekend
Friday, 14 March 2025, 10:51 am | Shearing Sports New Zealand
Mate v mate as Kiwis chase revenge in shears test match More >>
Ichiko Aoba (Japan) Announces Auckland Show
Friday, 14 March 2025, 10:29 am | Banished Music
Audiences are in for an intimate, truly magical experience when Ichiko Aoba descends upon Tāmaki Makaurau this June. More >>
New Zealand Fringe Festival Closes It’s 35th Year Strong!
Friday, 14 March 2025, 10:24 am | New Zealand Fringe Festival
The awards for this year’s festival span from ‘Best in Fringe’, sponsored by Her Worship the Mayor Tory Whanau, to the turbulently-wonderful ‘Spectacular Organised Chaos’ sponsored by BATS Theatre, and to ‘Momentous Music Award’, sponsored ... More >>
Loopy Tunes Share Two New Matariki Waiata
Friday, 14 March 2025, 10:07 am | Great NZ Publicity
These new waiata follow up 'Hiwa-i-te-rangi' and 'Te Waka o Rangi (Pōhutukawa)' from their upcoming 'Mā: Matariki for Tamariki' album, a 13-track assortment from the Ōtautahi-based sister duo, made for "our little ones to help them understand ... More >>
Parenthood Inspires New Single From The Phil Edwards Band
Friday, 14 March 2025, 10:01 am | Great NZ Publicity
The Phil Edwards Band led by Phil Edwards supported by Adrian Ashdown and Timothy Williams have been together since 2009. More >>
Singer-songwriter Lachie Hayes Delivers Ode To The Miserable Discontents With New Single ‘S.O.B.’
Friday, 14 March 2025, 9:52 am | Blackout Music Management
Southland-born, Catlins-based musician LACHIE HAYES today releases ‘S.O.B.’, an upbeat alt-country rogue’s tune, and the second single off his upcoming full-length sophomore album SUBSATELLITE due out in 2025. More >>
WOMB 'One Is Always Heading Somewhere' Out Today On Flying Nun Records
Friday, 14 March 2025, 9:37 am | The Label
The album builds musically from where their previous albums – Like Splitting the Head from the Body and Dreaming of the Future Again – left off. While still harbouring their signature emotive and ethereal sound, Womb’s third album sees the three moving ... More >>
Bon Iver Shares Two New Singles
Friday, 14 March 2025, 9:31 am | The Label
As SABLE,’s darkness gives way to fABLE’s radiant light, pain turns to purpose and possibility, stark reflections set the table for vibrant pop music, and feelings of desolate, depressed solitude transform into deep and devoted sensuality. More >>
Lola Announces Debut EP 'Outside World'; Drops The EP’s Third Single, ‘Above’
Friday, 14 March 2025, 9:27 am | The Label
Premiered on 95bFM by Half Queen, Lola unveils ‘Above,’ the latest single from the project, a conceptual counterpart to the EP’s first release, ‘Under.’ More >>
More Outstanding Shows Announced For Kia Mau Festival
Friday, 14 March 2025, 9:22 am | Elephant Publicity
Joining the previously announced Heart of Stone and The Aotearoans, is the third recipient of Kia Mau’s new initiative He Toi Puaki – DARK!DARK!DARK!. More >>
Pete Murray Announces Four Date Solo Acoustic Tour Of New Zealand
Friday, 14 March 2025, 9:06 am | Broken Record Publicity
Kicking off in Queenstown at Yonder on Wednesday 30 April, the tour will then head to the iconic Loons in Lyttelton on Thursday 1 May before heading north to San Fran in Wellington on Friday 2 May and wrapping up at The Tuning Fork on Saturday 3 May. More >>
New Integrity Code Welcomed By Sport And Recreation Sector
Friday, 14 March 2025, 9:03 am | Sport Integrity Commission
The purpose of the Integrity Code is to create safer and fairer environments in sport and recreation by setting consistent standards that benefit everyone, from athletes and coaches to administrators, officials and volunteers. More >>
Tom Lark Releases 'Fuselage', Single #3 From Moonlight Hotel
Friday, 14 March 2025, 8:57 am | Good Luck Mansion
The single is accompanied by a video directed by Sam Kristofski, that sees an undercover Tom Lark traverse the streets of Auckland City, getting to the bottom of something. More >>
Japanese Breakfast Announces First Ever Aotearoa Show
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 9:14 pm | 818.
For Melancholy Brunettes follows a transformative period in Zauner’s life during which her 2x GRAMMY nominated breakthrough album Jubilee and her bestselling memoir Crying In H Mart catapulted her into the cultural mainstream, delivering on her deepest ... More >>
FIFA World Cup Qualifiers: All Whites Embrace Favourites Tag
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 8:08 pm | RNZ
A "laser-focussed" NZ squad have the odds stacked in their favour and now it is up to them to cash in. More >>
F5000 Thunder Rolls Into Hampton Downs For Penultimate Round
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 7:13 pm | F5000 New Zealand
Dubbed “Thunder at the Downs”, the event marks round 5 of 6, with 3 races playing a crucial role in shaping the season’s title battle. The re-introduction of an overall title for both Open and A categories has created a more fiercely contested ... More >>
Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Welcomes FIFA Club World Cup™
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 6:47 pm | Auckland City FC
Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, as mana whenua of central Tāmaki Makaurau, welcomed the Auckland City FC squad and staff, and a delegation of guests from the football community with karanga, whaikōrero, and waiata, reinforcing the deep ties between football, ... More >>
Podium On Debut For Jones – But More To Come
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 5:42 pm | Toyota New Zealand
“We were delighted with the result, but were also left with a feeling of what could have been as it was a steep learning curve,” explained Zeal on his return to New Zealand last week. More >>
Darude Embarks On Storm 25 World Tour Celebrating Twenty-five Years In Dance Music
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 4:44 pm | Xposed Media
One of Australia’s fave international DJ/Producer’s Darude is returning to Aus in 2 weeks! More >>
Alex Warren Announces Upgrades For All Shows + New Adelaide & Second Sydney Shows Added Due To Phenomenal Demand!
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 4:41 pm | Frontier Touring Company
To allow more fans the chance to see the acclaimed musician live, Warren will now perform at Auckland Town Hall, Melbourne’s Margaret Court Arena, Perth HPC, Brisbane’s Riverstage, Adelaide’s AEC Theatre and two nights at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion. More >>
Tonga Qualify For OFC U-19 Women's Championship 2025
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 4:38 pm | OFC
Tonga will play in the OFC U-19 Women’s Championship in Tahiti later this year after an impressive 16-0 victory over American Samoa on the last day of qualifying action in Nuku’alofa. More >>
Paving The Way For Future Excellence And Community Impact
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 4:36 pm | Get Sponsorship
Rather than relying on generic partnerships, Ngongotaha AFC focuses on understanding the core business objectives of their sponsors and developing tailored programs that deliver measurable results. More >>
Tactix Coach Donna Wilkins Takes Aim At 2025 Season
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 4:35 pm | Tactix Netball
With the 2025 ANZ Premiership season reduced from 15 to 10 matches, there is pressure to get results early in the season, and Wilkins hopes supporters will be there for game one, and not wait to see how the team is performing. More >>
Winners Announced For Zonta Ashburton Women’s Art Awards For 2025
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 4:20 pm | Ashburton Gallery
With an unprecedented 126 entries this year, 30 finalists were selected from the 100 entries for the Premier Award, and 25 entries were featured in the Young Generation Award category, for those aged 16-20 years. More >>
Rugby Museum To Host Capping Ceremony For Whanau Of Former Test Referees
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 12:29 pm | New Zealand Rugby Museum
New Zealand Rugby continues to seek descendants of 18 referees who have yet to be contacted about receiving this commemorative cap on behalf of their ancestor. More >>
Young Pacific Leaders Sports Programme Off To A Strong Start In Aotearoa, New Zealand
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 11:51 am | Women in Sport Aotearoa
The programme continues with more leadership workshops, and a mentorship and learning experience with sporting organisations in Auckland, furthering the cultural exchange between the Pacific and New Zealand. More >>
Southland Documenting Our Heritage Winners Announced
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 11:32 am | Heritage New Zealand
All the photos are on digital display at the Civic Theatre and Invercargill City Library during Southland Heritage Month. In addition to being added to Rārangi Kōrero online, Invercargill Archives will add the digital images to their collection. More >>
Two Riders Chase The Perfect Season Record
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 10:17 am | NZSBK
The fuse for the final round of the StarInsure New Zealand Superbike Championship is lit on Saturday morning at Taupo with practice and qualifying, followed in the afternoon by race one for each class. More >>
2degrees Launches SupportHer Club
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 10:04 am | 2degrees Mobile
The SupportHER Club provides information and resources for parents, coaches and other supporters to help young girls stay in sport, and is an extension of 2degrees’ long standing women’s sport sponsorships. More >>
Business And Sport Team Up For Landmark Agreement
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 9:45 am | Sport Canterbury
During the three-year arrangement, support will be provided to RSOs through tailored professional learning and development, networking opportunities and specific human resource management support designed to grow and strengthen our Ōtautahi Christchurch-based ... More >>
Creative And Cultural Strategy Receives Hundreds Of Submissions
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 9:25 am | Ministry for Culture and Heritage
"Thank you to the hundreds of people that gave us feedback on Amplify: A Creative and Cultural Strategy for New Zealand," says Leauanae Laulu Mac Leauanae, Secretary for Culture and Heritage at Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage. More >>
Easter Egg-Citement Awaits In Seasonal Addition To The Hit ‘New Bum’ Series
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 9:01 am | Oratia Books
Easter Bunny needs a NEW BUM! is the newest addition to the hilarious hit series that cracks up readers around the world. More >>
Experience The Power Of The DIVA In New International Exhibition Coming To Auckland Museum
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 8:12 pm | Auckland Museum
DIVA showcases over 280 objects, including fashion, photography, costumes, music, and design, featuring trailblazing performers who have made their voices heard from the 19th century to today. More >>
Applications For 2025 MKWC Shanghai Residency NOW OPEN
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 7:23 pm | Michael King Writers Centre
Applications close on Monday 31st March and the selection is expected to be announced in May. More >>
New Zealand Announces Record-Breaking Team For World Athletics Indoor Championships In Nanjing
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 6:42 pm | Athletics New Zealand
More than 500 athletes from all around the world will compete for medals in 26 disciplines across the three days of action. More >>
Marking The 6th Anniversary Of March 15 Attacks With Broadcast Of The Adhan
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 3:24 pm | Ministry for Culture and Heritage
"As an act of remembrance and symbol of solidarity with Aotearoa New Zealand’s Muslim communities, the adhan (call to prayer) will be broadcast across the country." More >>
Elevating Local Artists To A Global Stage
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 11:40 am | Toitoi - Hawkes Bay Arts And Events Centre
Through UPSTAGE, artists not only gain industry-standard recordings but also valuable experience in a professional production environment. More >>
Fiji 23 Player Squad Named For FIFA World Cup 26™ Oceania Qualifiers Semi-Final Against New Zealand
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 10:28 am | Oceania Football Confederation
The coach acknowledges the strength of Darren Bazeley’s All Whites squad which was named yesterday. More >>
‘Limb-it-Less’ Combo Proves Winning Formula At IronmanNZ
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 10:20 am | Hawke's Bay Rescue Helicopter Trust
At 58 years of age, Sharon (Shaz) Dagg has become the first female amputee to conquer one of the country’s most gruelling adventure races, and she’s crediting the accomplishment to the help of her good friend and fellow ‘fitness junky’, Hawke’s ... More >>
UC And Boccia NZ Unite To Foster Paralympic Performance
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 10:08 am | University of Canterbury
In a new partnership with Boccia NZ, University of Canterbury students are championing accessibility, fostering community spirit and improving athletic skills. More >>
Martin Added To Nuggets Roster For 2025 Season
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 9:16 am | Otago Nuggets
Martin joins Joshua Aitcheson, Danyon Ashcroft, Matthew Bardsley, Donald Carey Jr, Patrick Freeman, Jono Janssen, Darcy Knox, Jose Perez, Mike Ruske, Caleb Smiler and Mac Stodart on the Nuggets' 2025 roster. More >>
Vera Ellen Shares New Single + Video For 'Sangria (Demo)'
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 9:02 am | Flying Nun Records
Today Vera shares delicate forbidden-love-anthem ‘sangria (demo)’, A fan-favourite from recent sunny festival sets at Laneway Festival and Twisted Frequency. This track is performed, recorded and mixed by Vera herself, and in keeping with its DIY essence, ... More >>
