The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain’s theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...

A mountain in New Zealand - seen as an ancestor by the country’s indigenous Maori people - is now legally considered a person. The Bill gives local tribes more say in maintaining the mountain ...

New Zealand on Thursday passed a landmark law granting Mount Taranaki the status of a legal person, in a move that recognizes its cultural significance to Māori iwi (people) as a sacred ancestor.

A New Zealand mountain has been granted personhood by parliament after years of almost a decade of settlement negotiations, local media announced Friday. Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki ...

Mt. Taranaki and its surrounding national park will enjoy all the rights and responsibilities of a person under a recent law ...

Nathan Longhurst has done 78 peaks so far. He hopes his frantic pace will allow him to notch all 100 before the end of summer ...

Sixty-four passengers were safely removed Wednesday from the Peabody Quad Lift at Cannon Mountain because of a mechanical issue, officials said.The Department of Natural and Cultural Resources ...