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

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, ...

After living in the US for nearly 20 years I was shocked on return to New Zealand with the inroads the Māori population has made into this culture. Now I get some local body election papers in the ...

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 ...

The actor told the Waitangi Tribunal it took four years to get her daughter's passport.

"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 ...