(David White/STUFF via AP) New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, center, arrives on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, for the ...

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

At the Waitangi Treaty Grounds in the country's north, political and community leaders welcomed the day with a stately dawn ...

A bill aimed at ending long-standing rights from the indigenous population has fuelled this year’s heated events.

Thousands gathered across New Zealand yesterday to celebrate the signing of the country’s founding document and some called ...

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 ...

The Tauranga Moana Waitangi Day Festival commemorates the signing of the Treaty and acknowledges Tauranga’s multicultural, multi-ethnic make-up. Photo / Benjamin Parkinson Tauranga City Council ...

A Waka, a Māori canoe, is paddled at at Waitangi ... Those scenes perhaps explained why Luxon, the prime minister, spent the day far from Waitangi, attending commemorations on the South Island ...

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

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.