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Politician Bill Johnson once campaigned against same-sex marriage but is now donating sperm to lesbian couples in New Zealand.

Influential travel authority Lonely Planet has chosen New Zealand’s Southern Lakes region, including popular lakeside resort Queenstown as one of the world’s Top 10 Regions to visit in 2012.

Stewart Island is just 67 square miles in size, about the same geographically as Singapore. But Singapore has a population of 5 million. Stewart Island has only 300 to 400 year-round residents.

A website claims that the deadly earthquake that left at least 98 people dead and hundreds more missing was caused by God’s wrath at "amoral" conduct and "lesbians."

An elderly lesbian couple in New Zealand will have to close their florist shop because of two separate arson incidents, one of which included anti-gay grafitti.

Gay advocates are outraged that McDonald’s restaurants in New Zealand blocked access to GLBT sites. The company says it was in the interests of maintaining a "family friendly" atmosphere.

New Zealand may lose the filming of "The Hobbit" movies because of an actors’ pay dispute, with financial backers Warner Bros. making arrangements to shift the production elsewhere, director Peter Jackson warned Thursday.

The New Zealand arm of "ex gay" group Exodus has lost a bid to gain charity status, because the government there says that being gay is okay--and not a disease requiring charitable support.

You’ve heard of New Zealand’s natural beauty, and seen it on the big screen in sweeping epics like the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Now see it from the perspective of an EDGE contributor!

A Hong Kong-based investment group says it wants to invest up to New Zealand dollars 1.5 billion ($1.1 billion) in New Zealand’s dairy industry to make high-quality infant formula and long-life milk products for the Chinese market.