New Zealand's first jail was a simple affair, just a symmetrical four-roomed log building, built in 1840 at Okiato in the Bay of Islands, not far from present-day Russell. But its history ...

The treaty was the founding document of New Zealand and officially made New Zealand a British colony. While the treaty was presented as a measure to resolve differences between the Maori and the ...

The Cook Islands’ pact with China has been furiously denounced by New Zealand as breaching the neo-colonial constitutional ...

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

Indo-Fijians have expressed concern about their ethnicity classification in New Zealand. While Fiji is located in the Pacific ...

Wellington is at odds with the Cook Islands over a looming new agreement with China and the former Pacific colony's plan to have its own passport.

Move over, humans—New Zealand's iconic Taranaki Mounga just got the same legal rights as you! In a groundbreaking move, the ...

A mountain in New Zealand has been granted the same legal rights as a person, becoming the third natural feature in the ...