New Zealand Maori activist Tame Iti gestures at the Waitangi Treaty House grounds ahead of Waitangi Day celebrations in Waitangi, northern New Zealand, Monday, Feb. 5, 2024.

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’s right-wing National Party-led coalition government used Waitangi Day on February 6, the country’s national day, to stoke racial divisions and divert attention from its escalating ...

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.

Waitangi Day is a multi-day series of events, summits and cultural celebrations centred in northern New Zealand at the site of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.