Stories by Te Aniwa Hurihanganui

Beginners courses in the Māori language have reached full capacity, with waiting lists as long as 300 people in some areas with places not available till next year.

A petition signed by renowned author Patricia Grace which calls for the government to exempt Māori land from a law that compels private owners to sell their land for transport services has been…

Legislation allowing council decisions to establish Māori electoral wards to be challenged via referendums has been described as "racist".

Captain Cook saw nothing of value in Poverty Bay when he named it in 1769 - but 250 years later that could be about to change.

Ngāpuhi should be asking for the Prime Minister to bury her baby's pito whenua, or placenta, in Ngāpuhi instead of suggesting names, Labour Party MP Peeni Henare says.

Two South Island rivers in Waiau have been restored to their original Māori names.

The voices and perspectives of hundreds of Māori women have been collected in a new book, which hopes to redefine the traditional role of Wāhine Māori in 19th century Aotearoa.

Social workers frustrated with ticking boxes for funding have started their own programme in Christchurch aimed at giving troubled children somewhere to belong and someone to believe in them.

At Rātana this week Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern stole the headlines after she was given a special place to speak on the paepae and received the offer of a new name, Waru, for her new baby.

A trove of historic recordings of waiata, haka and speeches from the day the 28th Māori Battalion arrived home from war is online for the first time.

A community-led campaign in Northland wants to lift women out of 'period poverty', one cup at a time.

More than 3000 paddlers will compete this week in the 29th Te Wānanga o Aotearoa National Waka Ama Sprint Championships.

The establishment of a Māori ward on the Whakatāne District Council has sparked fierce debate, with a petition launched demanding a referendum on the decision. Audio

According to a recent Netsafe report, Māori teenagers receive more unsolicited naked images, or "sexting" than any other teenage ethnic group.

The eight iwi of Taranaki are one step closer to having their sacred mountain and ancestor, Taranaki Maunga, become a legal personality.

A Hawke's Bay winery has apologised to local iwi, Ngāti Kahungunu, for carving a walking track on land believed to be of huge ancestral and historical importance.

A former school PE teacher left her job over a year ago and says she saw too many Māori students looked down on, judged and under-served by the mainstream school system.

An extinct species of 1.65m tall penguins has been given the Māori name, Kumimanu, meaning 'monster bird'.

A new start-up is aiming to help Māori entrepreneurs turn their ideas into profitable businesses.

A portrait of a young Māori Ngāi Tahu chief drawn in 1835 will return to its home after it was purchased by the University of Otago's Hocken Collection.

The rural marae in the Wairarapa will soon be revitalised as a new social housing development nears completion, a project manager says.

The Office of Treaty Settlements has urged its new minister to complete historical settlements with all willing and able groups by 2020.

Three Gisborne iwi will soon have access to more than 350 hours of historic audio from hui, wānanga and broadcasts through a planned radio series by Gisborne's Tūranga FM.

A new board game called "kuputupu" based on the popular word game Scrabble has been developed by a Hutt Valley library to encourage use of te reo Māori.

Taupō iwi Ngāti Tūwharetoa has this year received a financial return of $4.7 million.