The Maori king, Kiingi Tuheiti (L), died Friday at the age of 69. Here he is seen in November 2015 with then Prince Charles (C), who has since been anointed king, and his wife, Queen Camilla. Photo by ...

Ngawai Hono i te Po was anointed Queen of the Maori people on Thursday. Photo courtesy of Kiingitanga/Release Sept. 5 (UPI) --A new Maori queen was anointed Thursday when the king of New Zealand's ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, a 22-year-old lawmaker in New Zealand’s Parliament, shot to international fame last year when she ripped up a controversial bill and performed a ...

A Maori tribal group in Taranaki, New Zealand, is preventing Greymouth Petroleum from entering the site of a planned drilling campaign. The Otaraua Hapu, or Otaraua sub-tribe said it was contining its ...

BYU women’s basketball player Kaylee Smiler is a New Zealand native, and her rich Maori culture not only enriches her life, but the lives of her teammates and many other BYU students. Smiler embodies ...

In political news outside the U.S., New Zealand Parliament was briefly suspended yesterday after Maori members performed a haka, a traditional ceremonial group dance, to disrupt the vote on a ...

In New Zealand this week, thousands of Indigenous Maori took to the streets in protest. They have been voicing their disapproval of the new conservative government's plans to review a treaty that was ...

All of the country's oil and gas production is limited to the Taranaki province on the west coast of the North Island, although there are discoveries waiting to be developed on the east coast of the ...

The king of New Zealand's Indigenous Maori people, Kiingi Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII (left), died on Friday - Copyright POOL/AFP/File Peter DRURY The king of ...

Sept. 5 (UPI) --A new Maori queen was anointed Thursday when the king of New Zealand's indigenous people who died late last month was laid to rest. A statement from the Kiingitanga, meaning the Maori ...