Government funding will go towards 26 community events to commemorate Waitangi Day in 2025, from Tāhuna (Queenstown) to Te Tai Tokerau (Northland) and Rēkohu/Wharekauri (Chatham Islands).

Almost 100 pilot whales have died in a mass stranding on New Zealand's remote Chatham Islands. Conservation ... by the time they reached the location, Waitangi West Beach, few of the animals ...