WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s parliament on Thursday handed record-long suspensions to three Indigenous Maori lawmakers who last year staged a protest haka on the debating floor. Maori Party co ...

More than 40,000 protest New Zealand Maori rights bill Although the bill is unlikely to pass, opponents say bid to reverse progress for Maori threatens to divide society.

Thousands of people joined a march towards New Zealand's national capital on Friday after a contentious bill that would reinterpret the country's 184-year-old founding document passed its first ...

New Zealand's parliament was suspended after Maori lawmakers performed a haka to interrupt a vote on a controversial bill.

A new Maori Queen was anointed Thursday, taking on the role at a time when New Zealand is facing some of the biggest challenges to race relations in two decades.

New Zealand moves to abolish Maori health authority despite protests Centre-right government says health agency set up to improve access for Maori people will be shut down by end of June.

Politicians typically swat away questions about their appearance, but Te Pati Maori has wielded fashion as a political weapon.

For decades, historians and scientists believed Antarctica was discovered by Europeans and Americans. But according to a new study, it may have been New Zealand’s indigenous Maori people who ...

Each year, New Zealand honors the language of its indigenous people with Maori Language Week, a seven-day celebration filled with seminars, activities and live performances. As Charlotte Graham ...

The Maori language of New Zealand has just expanded by 200 words and phrases, freshly minted to describe mental health, addiction and disability issues.

Today, virtually no Maori de­scribe themselves as full-time followers of traditional religion, although most draw on those older folkways. Maori clergy and ministers were appointed, and there were ...