WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand lawmakers dealt an overwhelming defeat Thursday to a controversial proposed law seeking to redefine the country’s founding treaty between Māori tribes and ...

New Zealand’s right-wing coalition government—which consists of the National Party, the nationalist NZ First Party and the libertarian ACT Party—is ramping up its efforts to stoke racial divisions and ...

New Zealand on Thursday marked the anniversary of its founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi. The day came with quiet protests of government officials by some Māori leaders amid a national period ...

Why New Zealand’s Maori are fighting to save an 1840 treaty involving the Crown - Maori tribes call on King Charles to ensure ...

Over 150 New Zealand organisations on Monday released an open letter to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon calling for work to stop on a contentious bill that would define in statute the principles of ...

Principals and teachers have repeatedly told RNZ there have been noticeably fewer Māori words and Treaty references.

At an urgently convened conference in Wellington this week, educators said mention of the Treaty of Waitangi and Māori words ...

WELLINGTON – New Zealand lawmakers dealt an overwhelming defeat Thursday to a controversial proposed law seeking to redefine the country’s founding treaty between Māori tribes and the British Crown.