New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, center, arrives on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, for the Waitangi Day ceremonies at Ōnuku Marae, New Zealand. Credit: AP/Kai Schwoerer ...

New Zealand Youth Choir has won the top award at an international competition in Wales. The singers, aged between 18 and 25, ...

Waitangi Day marks the first signing of New Zealand's founding document: The Treaty of Waitangi or Te Tiriti o Waitangi in Māori. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon bucked tradition by choosing not ...

The annual Waitangi Day celebrations, which also included free concerts, sporting events and panel debates, have long been used as a time of protest. New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon of ...

Simpson has served as a trustee of the Waitangi National Trust since 2017 and as deputy chair since 2021, representing the descendants of the chief Pomare. Like Tipene, she too is approaching the nine ...

New Zealand's Waitangi Treaty may be at risk. These young Māori are fighting to protect it New Zealand's government is making "really worrying" repeals to Māori rights, campaigners say.

New Zealand's Waitangi Day chaos tells a very modern race relations story that Australians know all too well. Tensions are running high in New Zealand as the fight back continues against dangerous ...

Protesters have converged in the New Zealand's capital in protest of a bill which would reinterpret a 184-year treaty with the Māori people.

February 6 marks the 185th anniversary of the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Treaty of Waitangi). To commemorate Aotearoa New Zealand’s national day, events will be held at Te Puia and Wai ...

The New Zealand Embassy in the Philippines commemorated Waitangi Day on Feb. 6 at the Ambassador's Official Residence in Makati City. The event celebrated Aotearoa's heritage and highlighted the ...

Thousands of people have attended events in Waitangi in northern New Zealand, to celebrate the country's national day amid a debate over the future of its founding document.