Stephen Rush studies his 80-metre family tree at a big family reunion of early settler families in Palmerston North. DAVID UNWIN / FAIRFAX NZ Descendants from some of the earliest settlers in ...

A new documentary titled Punjab to Aotearoa aims to trace the history of Indian migration to New Zealand over the past 100 ...

Golden Bay Heritage Society chairman Barry Cashman with The First Landing plaque to be fixed on a marble rock at Ligar Bay.Nina Hindmarsh / Not-For-Syndication A series of framed metal plaques ...

Its title signals it will not be a history viewed through a chosen lens, whether of post-colonialism, decolonisation or ...

In a new study published today in Science Advances, my colleagues and I have uncovered the earliest evidence of rice in the ...

The domesticated rice was transported by the first islanders, who sailed 2,300 kilometres of open ocean from the Philippines ...

The wild climate and creative distilling practices in this South Pacific country are changing the whiskey landscape.

In a new study published today in Science Advances , my colleagues and I have uncovered the earliest evidence of rice in the Pacific Islands - at an ...

Britain and four other nations imposed sanctions on Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, accusing them of repeatedly ...

Although New Zealand’s 1852 constitution was theoretically colour-blind, very few Māori were able to vote in early elections ...

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said condemnation by the U.S. and Israel of sanctions imposed on two far-right Israeli cabinet ministers was "predictable", and that the two men had impeded ...

T he Founding Fathers who gathered in Philadelphia to adopt the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 picked a nice day ...