In 1841, a brutal crime committed by a young Māori man, Maketū Wharetōtara, set off a chain of events that would reshape New Zealand forever. His execution under British law ignited tensions over ...

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

Owned by the same family for five generations, the hotel, which opened in 1841, feels as alive as ever, with a rooftop bar, a ...

US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr (1841-1935)had said that humans could be improved ... Norway and Dylann Roof in South Carolina to the Christchurch killer in New Zealand, echo Camus’ ...

At daybreak on April 28, 1841, Peter was beaten and tortured by ... His body was taken back to France and Rome via New Zealand and Australia, where it rested at Villa Maria in Sydney for two ...

During the 19th century, large areas of what became known as Australia were successively separated to form the British colonies of Tasmania (proclaimed as separate colony named Van Diemen's Land in ...

The bill’s architect, David Seymour, met with protests at Waitangi marae — a Māori meeting house — during speeches by ...

New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

OPINION: We should move past the myth that NZ's sovereignty was born in a single moment.

Pacific allies don’t usually air their dirty laundry in public. But a rare on-the-record dispute between New Zealand and Kiribati has renewed focus on the poor and isolated island nation ...

WELLINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - The Cook Islands lie halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii and are made up of 15 islands and atolls spread over 700 square miles (1.9 million square kilometres ...