WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The haka, a chanting dance of challenge, is sacred to New Zealand’s Māori people but it’s ...

the Wellington City Missioner says. Today marks the second anniversary of the Loafers Lodge fire in Newtown that killed five of the building’s 92 residents and left those who escaped homeless.

Debt-stricken Sri Lanka has hosted one of New Zealand’s top ministers to discuss ways to deepen bilateral ties in areas such ...

It's that time again for the sound of "Pomp and Circumstance" as high school seniors at Wellington Community High School collect their diplomas at the school's graduation ceremony, held ...

but its purchase cramped further development of the neighbouring Newtown Countdown supermarket owned by rival Progressive Enterprises. In 2012, Foodstuffs applied to the Wellington City Council to ...

A loaded handgun was found in a student's backpack at Panther Run Elementary School in Wellington on May 15. This is the third incident involving guns or ammunition at a Wellington-area school ...

Schoolkids sang the Philippines' national anthem for Filipino language week in New Zealand. Footage shows the youngsters and teachers gathered at the school grounds where Lupang Hinirang was playing ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — For more than a decade, passengers at New Zealand's Wellington Airport have boarded flights below the figures of two giant, hovering eagles from the "Hobbit" films ...

NZ film industry faces uncertainty over US tariff ... The outbreak of a “brutal” and highly contagious parasitic stomach bug in the Wellington region is continuing, with numbers of infected ...