TANGOIO, New Zealand — The wharenui, or meeting house, stood forlorn. Usually the hub of this remote Maori community, it had been stripped of its wooden carvings.

The Maori of New Zealand named a new monarch on Thursday, selecting a 27-year-old queen in a symbolic but weighty role as some of the Indigenous group’s hard-fought rights have been rolled back.

Politicians typically swat away questions about their appearance, but Te Pati Maori has wielded fashion as a political weapon. By Serena Solomon Reporting from Auckland, New Zealand The outfit is ...

Everyone has a bucket list filled with countries they would like to visit during their lifetime. Well, hopefully, New Zealand ...

This Man Has Helped Give 460 Dead Whales a Second Life—As Art. Hori Parata handles dead whales on New Zealand beaches the Maori way: He extracts the bones so they can be carved into jewelry or art.

New Zealand's Maori currently make up about 17% of the population, or about 900,000 people. Women carried wreaths of kawakawa leaves on their heads and were cloaked in patterned shawls. ... They ...

the maori name for new zealand translates to "land of the long white cloud," as from the sea, the spine of snow-capped mountains appeared as powdery billows. ... the carvings that tell the stories.

Tributes have poured in following the death of the king of New Zealand’s Indigenous Maori people on Friday, just days after celebrating the 18th anniversary of his coronation.

NGĀRUAWĀHIA, New Zealand (AP) — They came in their thousands in the freezing dawn, parking cars far away and winding down rural roads on foot, children riding on their shoulders. They arrived ...

New Zealand’s Māori king, Tūheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero VII, 69, has died. His daughter, Ngā wai hono i te po, 27, is the new queen and the second woman to become Māori monarch.