Layla Bailey-McDowell

An advocacy group says youth homelessness is often misunderstood and many young people are leaving homes because they're unsafe.

A kaupapa Māori youth homelessness group says benefit changes will increase whānau stress and push more rangatahi onto the streets.

A wahine who has reclaimed her cultural identity is urging more Māori to pursue a career in social work.

Bernard Henare hopes people in Northland can one day "find the mahi, the sustenance, the lifestyle within their own rohe, and not have to go further afield to get it."

Charlie O'Sullivan, 19, has no whakapapa connections to New Zealand, but found particular interest with the language.

'Mātātoa' brings Māori together through fitness, te reo and culture.

Ashley Emiko is reclaiming her reo after feeling disconnected from a part of her identity as a child.

Angel Stewart is part of a resurgence of people reclaiming and protecting a taonga that was denied to previous generations - te reo Māori.

Janay Harding grew up disconnected from te ao Māori, but says reclaiming her reo has given her grounding.

Rhoen Hemara is part of a generation reclaiming a taonga that was stripped from his grandparents.

Māori Language Week has kicked off, with a parade, webinar series and a time capsule planned. Audio

Te Arikinui Kuini Nga wai hono i te po will deliver her first national address, after a year of mourning.

Rangatahi called upon other young people to protect the environment and preserve te reo Māori.

A prominent whānau Māori are calling on rangatahi to help shape the future.

As thousands descend on Turangwaewae, the next generation of leaders reflect on their role in sustaining Kiingitanga traditions.

"It's about power, who holds it and who gets to decide what justice looks like in this country," says Associate Professor Andrew Erueti.

Aotearoa's language journey was showcased as a "blueprint" for revitalisation at Canada's first-ever Indigenous Languages Summit.

The challenge is to find "the levers" to accelerate the rate of change, an advocate says.

Waipapa Taumata Rau brings together Māori and Pasifika paddlers from across the university.

A leading Māori studies academic says the education minister's decision is "a dangerous move".

GP clinics will soon receive funding based on factors such as age, sex, rurality, socioeconomic deprivation and morbidity, but not ethnicity.

The trust says it has no "exclusive seat at the table" when it comes to Crown-led water management.

Flow Waaka has spent over a decade feeding and supporting people living rough, and she's urging others to do their part.

"Some of our whānau say they've never had friendship from previous midwives ...That connection matters."

They have carried the first voice on the marae for decades, now these kuia are passing their knowledge to the next generation.