Whether they were listening to the music, getting their face painted, shopping at stalls or enjoying food, locals say they ...

The report, commissioned by NZ Māori Tourism and prepared by Business and Economic Research Limited (BERL), shows that in ...

Its name, Rotomairewhenua, was given by the Ngāti Apa, a local Māori tribe. The name’s meaning: the lake of peaceful lands. To New Zealanders, and to the Māori, the small body of water is sacred and ...

The important work of returning the remains of two ancestors home to New Zealand is under way following a repatriation ...

Festivals like the biannual Tāmaki Herenga Waka Festival in Auckland celebrate Māori culture with opportunities to sail ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. New Zealand on Thursday marked the anniversary of its founding ...

Danny Karatea-Goddard celebrates the new year three times a year - on 1 January, Matariki and the Lunar New Year. Karatea-Goddard's mother was the first to be born in New Zealand in his mixed ...

Rotorua Girls' High students Joy Tafuna ... Tafuna knew it was time to try out for the Aotearoa Māori Poirewa (New Zealand Māori Volleyball) team, she nagged her sister Joy to come along ...

New Zealand's last war was a pivotal point for race relations in Aotearoa. A new documentary about it has landed at another pivotal moment. It is billed as "New Zealand's last war". It took place in ...

On Thursday, January 23, Wyrley Court welcomed residents, local dignitaries, and members of the community alongside Cllr. Perry MBE, to celebrate the launch of the brand new development for the ...

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land ...

New Zealand was the first country in the world to recognize natural features as people when a law passed in 2014 granted personhood to Te Urewera, a vast native forest on the North Island.