The Waitangi Treaty Grounds will not open on Waitangi Day, its chairman Pita Tipene says, following the move to the Covid-19 red traffic light setting. The Waitangi National Trust, which runs the ...

Even before Waitangi Day commemorations start a judge has signalled ... Sometime in the "warmer months" of 2012, Harawira had shown her rear, in traditional insult, at marae kaumatua and kuia.

Tensions are running high on the eve of the country's national day, commemorating the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi between Maori and the Crown in 1840. On Wednesday was the annual gathering ...

Thousands of people - and waka - gathered for commemorations to celebrate Waitangi Day today. Many had travelled to the same place where, 185 years prior, Māori and Pākehā had come together to ...

Van der Vorst said Waitangi Day was fascinating for him as a diplomat ... such as Queen Elizabeth II's 60th jubilee river paegant in 2012. Also, the museum would have to recruit a crew to be trained ...

New Zealand's Waitangi Day was overshadowed by controversy as Māori leaders condemned a proposed bill to redefine the Treaty of Waitangi. Methodist Church president Te Aroha Rountree likened the ...

Waitangi Day marks the first signing of New Zealand's Treaty of Waitangi or Te Tiriti o Waitangi in Māori between the British Crown and Māori chiefs in 1840. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon ...

Thousands of people have attended events in Waitangi in northern New Zealand, to celebrate the country's national day amid a debate over the future of its founding document. Waitangi Day marks the ...

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 ...

Van der Vorst said Waitangi Day was fascinating for him as a diplomat ... such as Queen Elizabeth II’s 60th jubilee river pageant in 2012. Also, the museum would have to recruit a crew ...

It was 2012 and Smith had only been a Māori warden for five years ... there was no shortage of protesters this Waitangi Day, Smith remembers. According to the news reports at the time, John Key's ...

Hundreds of protesters were forced off the land by police ending an historic 506-day occupation. In 1987 the iwi’s fortunes finally started to turn. In response to a Waitangi Tribunal report ...