A bill aimed at ending long-standing rights from the indigenous population has fuelled this year’s heated events.

In 1770, the British explorer Captain James Cook spotted the peak from his ship and named it Mount Egmont. In 1840, Maori ...

Thousands gathered across New Zealand on Thursday to celebrate the signing of the country’s founding document and some called ...

The national holiday marks the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi between Maori chiefs and colonising British forces, widely seen as the birth of modern New Zealand.

As the sun rose on the dawn service at Waitangi where the Treaty of Waitangi was first signed between the British Crown and Maori chiefs in 1840, some community leaders called on the government to ...