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Five Midland district health boards will on Friday sign a new document committing to work together towards making the central North Island smokefree.

The campus director of Tairawhiti Polytechnic in Gisborne says there's been huge interest by Maori school leavers from as far north as Te Araroa in taking up trades courses this year.

The campus director of Tairawhiti Polytechnic in Gisborne, Jan Mogford, says merging with the Napier-based Eastern Institute of Technology has provided huge benefits for Maori wanting a tertiary or…

Eastern Bay of Plenty haka group Te Whanau-a-Apanui secured first place at the Mataatua regional competition at the weekend.

Two district health boards are to drop a contentious fee they impose on patients who have privately ordered lab tests. Audio

The Maori Party has nudged the Government to improve the state of roads in rural, mostly Maori communities.

The Maori Party says it is not surprised the Mana Party wants to stand for all seven Maori government seats.

Tairawhiti District Health Board staff are going into schools in the Gisborne region in an effort to reduce cases of rheumatic fever.

An Otago University researcher says health providers are not doing enough to ensure Maori patients in isolated rural communities are getting the treatment they need for rheumatic fever.

A health researcher says the treatment of rheumatic fever needs to be a priority on the East Coast.

An East Coast school principal says the region's economy should substantially benefit from a merger of the polytechs in Gisborne and Hawke's Bay. Audio

Thousands of people are expected to attend the national kapa haka festival which is underway in Gisborne.

The Government says officials are investigating ways to improve the provision of cancer treatment after revelations that some patients in the central North Island are being denied chemotherapy because… Audio

The Waitangi Tribunal has repeated a call it first made in 2003 for oil and gas resources to be on the table when Treaty settlements are negotiated with iwi. Successive governments have rejected the… Audio

The Government has approved a merger between the Eastern Institute of Technology near Napier and Tairawhiti Polytechnic in Gisborne in January.

Napier and Gisborne polytechnics are planning to merge.

The Government has decided to stop district health boards charging private patients for laboratory tests. Three boards introduced the charges in 2006.