The Spinoff presents a simplified transcript of the speeches at the treaty signings in Waitangi, Hokianga and Kaitāia.

Māori people celebrated on Friday as Mount Taranki in New Zealand officially became a person and, with that, was renamed Taranaki Maunga.

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

Danny Karatea-Goddard celebrates the new year three times a year - on 1 January, Matariki and the Lunar New Year.

Mount Taranaki in New Zealand is legally a person, enjoying all the rights and responsibilities of a human being. The move places the mountain back into the hands of the Māori tribe, who see the ...

The personhood is not bestowed on the central maunga in isolation, but on "a living and indivisible whole comprising Taranaki Maunga and other tūpuna maunga [ancestral mountains], including Pouākai ...

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New ...

Northland through the Hawke’s Bay and Waikato signed He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni, or, the Declaration of ...

The number of blackbirds in London continues to decline due to a deadly mosquito-borne virus, ecologists are warning. The Usutu virus, originally detected in South Africa, has continued to impact ...

From February 13 to 17, the Wild and Scenic Film Festival happens in Nevada City and Grass Valley. The event features films ...

If cow belches and farts are so bad, why didn’t the vast herds of 60 million bison roaming the U.S. West before the 1880s ...

Most economists were expecting mortgage rates to fall over the course of the coming year. But rates have risen steadily over the last month, inching back up to 7% — and they’re expected to ...