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Over 40,000 people gather in front of the New Zealand Parliament House in Wellington to protest against the Treaty Principles Bill that would change Māori people's rights, making it one of the largest protests in the country.
2024-11-19

Kiribati suspends three retired New Zealand judges from the Kiribati Court of Appeal as the constitutional crisis worsens.
2022-09-6

New Zealand receives 60,000 doses of the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine.
2021-02-15

Over 8,000 acres are burnt and one house destroyed after a scrub fire grows out of control near New Zealand's Lake Pukaki, requiring the evacuation of Mount Cook Village.
2020-08-31

A ban on single-use plastic shopping bags comes into force in New Zealand. Businesses that break the ban will face fines of up to $100,000NZD.
2019-07-1

A survey commissioned by Water New Zealand reveals sanitary sewer overflows increased by 379% across the nation in 2017.
2018-04-11

Thousands of people in the New Zealand city of Christchurch commemorate the first anniversary of the earthquake that killed 185 people last year.
2012-02-22

New Zealand businessman Allan Hubbard is to face fraud charges in relation to the collapse of his company Aorangi Securities Limited.
2011-06-20

The Australian airline Qantas is fined NZ$6.5 million for breaches of the Commerce Act in New Zealand, the biggest penalty for price fixing in the history of that country.
2011-05-12

Newly released cables reveal that New Zealand threatened Fiji's military chief Frank Bainimarama and his wife.
2010-12-22