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 ...

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, ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand lawmakers dealt an overwhelming defeat Thursday to a controversial proposed law seeking to redefine the country’s founding treaty between Māori tribes and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hundreds of pilot whales have died after becoming stranded near the shark-infested waters of a remote island chain in the South Pacific, according to rescue teams and conservationists. New Zealand’s ...