The Waitangi forum tent is a central part of commemorations in the Far North, but is usually a closely guarded event. This year, RNZ was granted a rare look inside. Ngahuia Harawira sits in the shade ...

New Zealand’s right-wing National Party-led coalition government used Waitangi Day on February 6, the country’s national day, to stoke racial divisions and divert attention from its escalating assault ...

Waitangi is proud to be marking the 50th anniversary of the 1975 Māori Land March with an exhibition called, Te Matakite o Aotearoa. Central to the exhibition is the full-length 1975 documentary Te ...

Laneway Festival has announced it won’t be holding the Auckland leg of its music festival on a public holiday next year.

The actor told the Waitangi Tribunal it took four years to get her daughter's passport.

Ata mārie, Aotearoa New Zealand, and welcome to the New Zealand Herald’s live coverage of Waitangi Day. It is 183 years today since the first signatures were placed on what became our country’s ...

Why New Zealand’s Maori are fighting to save an 1840 treaty involving the Crown - Maori tribes call on King Charles to ensure the New Zealand government honours its Treaty of Waitangi obligations amid ...

On February 6 New Zealanders annually celebrate the day that representatives of the British Crown and 500 Maori chiefs signed the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. Despite some ongoing tensions around the ...

King Charles has written of his deep connection to New Zealand and the Māori people in his first Waitangi Day message as King of New Zealand. In his message, King Charles says, “On this Waitangi Day, ...

At an urgently convened conference in Wellington this week, educators said mention of the Treaty of Waitangi and Māori words were being dropped from new English and maths curriculums, and from key ...

A hīkoi with an estimated 600 people marched from Paihia to Waitangi, and they were welcomed on to Te Tii Marae this morning. Video / Denise Piper / Merewai Durutalo / Michael Cunningham / Lois Turei ...

Māori actress Keisha Castle-Hughes has launched a blistering attack on New Zealand’s citizenship system after her daughter was refused a passport, branding the process “incredibly racist”.