Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand’s Maori King Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII died peacefully on Friday morning at age 69, according to a statement released by his representatives.

A controversy is brewing in New Zealand, as thousands of Kiwis recently took to the streets to protest a bill that would legally define the country's founding treaty — a change that opponents ...

As Matariki is celebrated in New Zealand, Christians navigate a return ... including the worship of ancestors and a pantheon of gods. For Christians, this has led to a parsing of what believers ...

New Zealand's youngest MP ... The haka's origins lie in Maori mythology, created by Tane-more, the son of the sun god and the summer maid. It symbolises vitality and energy, representing the ...

The three lawmakers, whose record suspensions last up to three weeks, drew global attention last year when they performed the ...

SYDNEY — New Zealand’s Maori crowned a new monarch on Thursday, selecting 27-year-old Nga Wai Hono i te Po Paki to succeed her late father as unifying leader of the country’s Indigenous ...

The traditional haka dance traces its roots to indigenous Polynesian inhabitants of New Zealand (Aotearoa) - the Maori people ...