Waka hit the water at the Treaty Grounds, while the PM was welcomed onto Ōnuku Marae in Akaroa and the Waitangi Hikoi made ...

Events are starting to wind down at Waitangi with the great waka Ngaatokimatawhaorua, with about 80 kaihoe on board, coming ...

The national holiday marks the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi between Maori chiefs and colonising British forces, widely seen as the birth of modern New Zealand.

In the early 1970s I rarely made it to Waitangi because February 6 was the day pupils returned to St Stephen’s School. A time ...

An inaugural Waitangi Day Festival art competition is new to this ... before the Royal New Zealand Navy raises the New Zealand flag and the national anthem is sung. Hosted by Ngāi Te Rangi ...

At Waitangi, a day so ill defined by headlines breaks free of its time-bound shackles and reveals itself as a week-long ...

By popular demand, more music acts than ever will take centre stage at this year’s Tauranga Moana Waitangi Day Festival. In its sixth year at The Historic Village at 17th Avenue, the anticipated large ...

The Spinoff presents a simplified transcript of the speeches at the treaty signings in Waitangi, Hokianga and Kaitāia.

Thousands of people are gathering at Invasion Day rallies across the country, backing calls to abolish or change the date of Australia Day.