New Zealand

New Zealand Parliament suspends 3 lawmakers who performed Māori haka in protest

3:36am June 05, 2025

The suspended lawmakers from the Māori Party performed the haka, a dance of challenge, last November to oppose a widely unpopular bill, now defeated, that they said would reverse Indigenous rights.

Jacinda Ardern reflects on a career focused on the power of kindness

5:00am June 03, 2025

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to former Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern about balancing leadership and motherhood.

Australia warns airlines to beware of Chinese naval exercises in the Tasman Sea

4:03am February 21, 2025

China had given notice that its warships could potentially fire live weapons during an exercise in the Tasman Sea, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.

A New Zealand mountain is granted personhood, recognizing it as sacred for Māori

1:00am January 31, 2025

The recognition acknowledges the mountain's theft from the Māori after New Zealand was colonized. It fulfills an agreement from the country's government to Indigenous people.

3 climbers from the U.S. and Canada are believed to have died in New Zealand

3:26am December 06, 2024

Three mountain climbers — two from the U.S. and one from Canada — missing for five days on Aoraki, New Zealand's tallest peak, are believed to have died in a fall, the authorities said Friday.

New Zealanders help save about 30 whales after a pod strands on a beach

1:27am November 25, 2024

New Zealand is a whale stranding hotspot. It's often not clear why they happen but the island nation's geography is believed to be a factor.

42,000 crowd New Zealand's Parliament grounds in support of Māori rights

1:08am November 19, 2024

Protesters oppose a measure that would reshape the county's founding treaty between Indigenous Māori and the British Crown.

New Zealand's leader apologizes to survivors of abuse in state and church care

1:03am November 12, 2024

An estimated 200,000 people, many of them Indigenous Māori, suffered abuse in New Zealand's foster and faith-based care over a period of seven decades

New Zealand Mourns Passing Of The Māori King

A 27-year-old just became queen of New Zealand's Maori

2:44pm September 05, 2024

Tribal leaders selected Nga Wai Hono i te Po as the new monarch after the death of her father last week. The second-ever Maori queen takes on the largely ceremonial role at a complicated moment.

World News

New Zealand food bank unknowingly distributed meth in candy

4:37am August 14, 2024

by The Associated Press

The amount of methamphetamine in each candy was up to 300 times the level someone would usually take and could be lethal, according to a drug checking and policy organization.