Laneway Festival has announced it won’t be holding the Auckland leg of its music festival on a public holiday next year.

Banners would be displayed in Wairau (Blenheim), Waitohi (Picton), Awatere (Seddon) and Motuweka (Havelock) to inspire others to think about the significance of Waitangi Day not only for the history ...

As the sun rose over Te Whare Rūnanga, the air filled with waiata, kōrero, and the sound of paddles cutting through the moana - thousands gathered at Waitangi, each carrying their own hopes and ...

Waitangi Day will be sunny for much of the country, but a brief spell of rain and cooler temperatures is expected for the South Island. A ridge of high pressure on Tuesday was expected to bring sunny ...

Texas flash flooding leaves unspecified numbers of people dead and missing Thunderstorms and torrential rain triggered deadly flash flooding on Friday along the Guadalupe River in south-central Texas, ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — It's often a day marked by spirited politics and at times boisterous protest. But Thursday's anniversary of New Zealand's founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi, passed in ...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Thousands gathered across New Zealand on Thursday to celebrate the signing of the country’s founding document and some called for an end to government policies that critics say ...

An urgent Waitangi Tribunal claim is challenging whether Māori born overseas, and their tamariki, have a right to belong in Aotearoa as tangata whenua. The two-day hearing, which opened today under ...

"Our Declaration of Sovereignty in 1835 and Te Tiriti o Waitangi in 1840 were both documents that were fundamentally forged by the kaha of rangatahi," he said, pointing to his tūpuna, Eruera Pare ...

At an urgently convened conference in Wellington this week, educators said mention of the Treaty of Waitangi and Māori words were being dropped from new English and maths curriculums, and from key ...