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 ...

The Treaty of Waitangi, signed in 1840, is considered New Zealand’s founding document—but its meaning has been debated for nearly two centuries. Did it guarantee Māori sovereignty or merely property ...

MERCER, New Zealand — New Zealand’s longest river courses through spongy green lowlands on the country’s North Island, a mighty behemoth that local Māori see as a living ancestor. For more than 10 ...

Two groups totalling almost 500 pilot whales were stranded, officials said. Hundreds of pilot whales that beached on the Chatham Islands in the last week died of natural causes or were euthanized, ...

New Zealand's national holiday is traditionally a chance to reflect on the past, but this Waitangi Day has been overshadowed by anger about the future. During a gathering of political leaders on the ...

Reconstruction of the Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi by Marcus King, 1939. [Photo by Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga Flickr / CC BY 2.0] The Australian Labor government will ...

A disturbing sight in New Zealand where 477 pilot whales stranded themselves on the Chatham Islands on Oct.11. None of the beached whales could be refloated and all of the animals died naturally or ...

Hundreds of pilot whales washed up on the remote shores of New Zealand’s Chatham Islands in two separate “mass stranding” events that occurred just days apart and deeply “affected” the people who live ...