Lunar New Year or Chinese New Year is observed by more than 1 and half billion people, so yeah it's kind of a big deal. KID 2 ...

For those who thought 2025 was going to be just another year, New Zealand had other plans for its mountains. In a move that ...

A stunning essay from Max Rashbrooke examining his ancestors' role in the shaping of Aotearoa, and what that means for his ...

No-one in Herbertville would have been surprised to read the Herald ’s story—by my reckoning, he’d been living around Route ...

Brigid This weekend is a holiday honoring Celtic goddess and ... it all the rights and responsibilities of a human being. Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name ...

The Lower Taranaki Falls Track crosses tussock and shrubland before ... most areas in Tongariro National Park as it is sited in the rain shadow to the east of Mt Ruapehu. The track passes Ohinepango ...

Mount Taranaki in New Zealand is legally a person, enjoying all the rights and responsibilities of a human being. The move ...

Addressing past wrongs, the New Zealand government has officially given the 2,500m volcano on the North Island the same ...

The volcano “is released from the shackles — the shackles of injustice, of ignorance, of hate,” an official said Lu Huaiqian/Xinhua via Getty Mount Taranaki is officially a person.

Mount Taranaki in New Zealand became a legal person, signaling a significant change in the nation's policy towards indigenous rights and the environment.

The New Zealand government has granted Mount Taranaki personhood on Thursday, giving it the same legal rights as a person ...

The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain's theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...