The Act Party has criticised Te Pāti Māori after co-leader Rawiri Waititi reshared a social media post that compared his lawn to David Seymour and said that it’s getting a “good fkn hiding”.

A senior official at the U.S. Agency for International Development ordered the agency’s remaining employees to destroy internal documents at the now-former headquarters in Washington on Tuesday ...

The saga of the television chief executive, his private family event in the company’s studios and a deleted document that became the focus of a ‘confidential employment matter’ at the ...

Free bowel cancer screening has been expanded from ages 60- 74 to 58-74 The announcement repurposes funding set aside by the previous government to lower the eligibility age for Māori and Pacific ...

On shore, members of a local Maori tribe prayed for the dolphin before it was returned to the ocean using a tractor. Helpers gave the 2- 3-year-old creature a name: Tohu, which means “sign” in the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Speaker Gerry Brownlee stands during a question time at parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, on Oct. 17 ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The speaker of New Zealand ’s Parliament told lawmakers he would not consider further complaints about the use of the country’s Māori name, Aotearoa, in ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Te Matatini o Te Kāhui Maunga brought tens of thousands of visitors to Taranaki for the biennial celebration of kapa haka, injecting millions of dollars into the province in the process. But beyond ...

The order of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, directing the removal of a cartoon featuring the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, from a Tamil magazine’s website, is unwarranted and may ...