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Juneteenth, originating in Texas, commemorates the liberation of enslaved individuals on June 19, 1865. It became a federal ...

American point guard Parker Jackson-Cartwright has agreed to a new two-year deal to return to the New Zealand Breakers, ...

A fossil discovery of an ancient relative of the Australian magpie which lived in New Zealand some 19 million years ago ...

The latest entries in New Zealand’s food composition database reflect the nation’s growing ethnic diversity and rising demand ...

New Zealand has suspended its financial assistance to the Cook Islands, saying its former Pacific Island colony did not consult it before signing a deal with China. Wellington is the Cook Islands ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand has suspended millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over the “breadth and content” of agreements the smaller Pacific nation has ...

In 2022, Jacinda Ardern, the then Prime Minister of New Zealand, was approached by a stranger in an airport bathroom. Ardern was alone, washing her hands, when a middle-aged woman walked up to her ...

Over the past 40 years, the government has transformed New Zealand from an agrarian economy, dependent on concessionary British market access, to a more industrialized, free market economy that ...

The New Zealand Parliament has voted to impose record suspensions on three lawmakers who did a Maori haka as a protest. The incident took place last November during a debate on a law on Indigenous ...

The New Zealand government has reversed a six-year ban on offshore oil and gas exploration, a policy initially enacted by former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in 2018 as part of the country’s ...

New Zealand is not alone in permitting the medicinal use of the drug. Australia, in July 2023, authorized specific psychiatrists to prescribe it for the treatment of certain mental health conditions.