Te Ao Māori

Waiariki MP Rawiri Waititi has supported calls for a review of New Zealand's traffic signs, saying he believes the rules are "absolutely" racist.

Gisborne District Council has voted to install two controversial replicas of Captain Cook's ship the Endeavour in the region.

Māori social service providers are pushing for ministries like Corrections to start putting money into Whānau Ora to improve outcomes for Māori.

Ngāti Kahungunu has geared into action since the heavy downpour began this week, launching their emergency response teams.

The Māori Party has requested a recount in Tāmaki Makaurau and Te Tai Hauāuru, claiming discrimination prevented many people from voting.

Opponents of an Auckland art exhibition which featured neo-Nazi flags and symbols of white nationalism have received an apology from one of the exhibition's co-facilitators, but say it doesn't go far…

Rules around bilingual road signage have been described as having "a touch of racism" by a Rotorua iwi representative.

Three Whakatāne women who led the charge for Māori wards in the district are ecstatic legislation change has been signalled.

Organisers have overcome the Covid-19 pandemic to stage the 11th year of the Mīharo Polyfest, formally known as Murihiku Polyfest.

Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta is vowing to remove a requirement for public polls when councils want to create Māori wards.

The te reo Māori Waitangi Tribunal claim in the 1980s should have been about the "value of the reo for all," Justice Joe Williams, who was on the legal team for the landmark case, says.

Professor Rawinia Higgins has won the Pou Aronui Award at the Research Honours Aotearoa Awards for her work in revitalising te reo Māori.

Today marks 139 years since the horrifying invasion by armed troops in Parihaka, one of the Crown's most profound injustices on record.

The woman who blew the whistle on a New Plymouth nurse for making comments online about her Māori colleagues, including that they 'sit on their fat asses all day', is urging others to speak out.

The Detail - Many didn't pick her as the new Foreign Affairs Minister but a close look at her 24 years in parliament reveals a record of quiet achievement.

A significant drop in the number of Māori infants getting vaccinated on time has the head of the immunisation advisory concerned there will be an increase in hospitalisations for serious illnesses.

Opinion - Māori diplomacy is as ancient as our people. Nanaia Mahuta restores a familiar face to foreign policy, and creates a strong indigenous-inspired platform for the future, Carrie Stoddart-Smith…

The Māori head of the New Zealand Nursing Organisation says she's been the victim of incessant, targeted online abuse - including death threats - for the last 18 months.

New Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta says she'll be taking New Zealand solutions - including indigenous approaches - with her to the world stage. Audio

Ngāi Tahu has taken legal action against the Crown to assert its rights over freshwater in the South Island, saying it has tried to engage with successive governments on the issue but has been…