Maori relics at Mapua station. April 19, 2012 • 6:32pm. Share. Work has been delayed on the $1.6 million project replacing Mapua's pump station because of an archaeological find.

The Maori King or Queen is considered the paramount chief of several tribes, or iwi, but is not affiliated with all of them. The monarch's role has no judicial or legal authority in New Zealand ...

A new Maori Queen was anointed Thursday, taking on the role at a time when New Zealand is facing some of the biggest challenges to race relations in two decades. CNN values your feedback 1.

Tens of thousands of New Zealanders gathered outside the parliament in one of the country’s largest demonstrations to oppose the Treaty Principles Bill, which critics say undermines Maori rights ...

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.

New Zealand's parliament on Thursday agreed to lengthy suspensions for three lawmakers who disrupted the reading of a controversial bill last year by performing a haka, a traditional Maori dance ...

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land ...

New Zealand’s Maori celebrate new era as 27-year-old queen is anointed. Nga Wai Hono i te Po Paki takes on the ceremonial role amid heightened tensions with the conservative government, which is ...