The first time Matarora Smith worked Waitangi Day commemorations in Paihia, she felt the wairua and whakapapa of the historic ...

Thousands of people have attended events in Waitangi in northern New Zealand, to celebrate the country's national day.

A Dutch paddler who has travelled around the world to take part in today’s Waitangi Day commemorations says getting involved ...

He paddled on Ngātoki on Waitangi Day when he was 10. Fifty years later, he yearns for that feeling once again. The feeling of being connected. Julia Gabel is a Wellington-based political reporter.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Those scenes perhaps explained why Luxon, the prime minister, spent the day far from Waitangi, attending commemorations on the South Island at Onuku Marae, where southern chiefs signed the Treaty ...