Te Ao Māori

The Hauraki District Council has elected its first ever Māori councillor.

Many children in state care were shocked with electricity, kept in cells, and beaten with bits of rubber in the 1970s, the Royal Commission into Abuse in Care has been told.

Māori nurse numbers have remained static at 7 percent for the last 40 years, but Whāngarei's Phillipa Barton now has funding to see how that can be changed.

A man who coached the All Blacks in the art of kapa haka says the "Flying V" by the English rugby team wasn't disrespectful or offensive.

A prominent Māori lawyer has told the Royal Commission into Abuse in Care that colonisation is the root cause of ongoing abuse of Māori in state care.

A woman removed from her family just 10 days after being born has told the Royal Commission into Abuse in Care that the separation resulted in traumatic consequences throughout her life.

The National Party says it will block gang members from the dole if they can't prove legal income or assets, but a Black Power spokesperson says punishing families won't help anyone. Audio

Labour's Māori senior vice president Tane Phillips has announced his candidacy for president, and says he distanced himself from the storm which embroiled the party for weeks and forced Nigel… Audio

Tears have been shed, hymns sung and hopes for the future expressed at the second day of Te Pūtake o te Riri - the New Zealand Wars commemorations in Taranaki.

The head of the Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency says its Oranga Tamariki inquiry has had hundreds of submitters.

Rubbish-strewn campsites, home-made toilets and illegal felling of native trees by "arrogant and disrespectful" freedom campers at Lake Waikaremoana have shocked and saddened Ngāi Tūhoe.

A dawn service has been held at Te Kohia Pa on the outskirts of Waitara this morning in recognition of it being the place where the first shots of the New Zealand land wars were fired in 1860.

Matangireia: Plenty of people warned Māori politician Tau Henare not to get tied up with "former Tory" Winston Peters - but Mr Henare says he and other Māori MPs were carried along in Mr Peters' wake.

Hundreds of Māori toa, warriors, have greeted the Prime Minister on to Ōwae Marae this morning as part of commemorations of the New Zealand Land Wars.

Plant samples collected on James Cook's Endeavour expedition will go on display in the Canterbury Museum on Wednesday.

A Tauranga councillor who outraged local Māori after he labelled the treaty "a joke" and "an iwi gravy train" is defending his comments.

Iwi leader Buddy Mikaere says he won't allow 30 years of Treaty of Waitangi work to be undermined by the "inflammatory" views of a new Tauranga city councillor. Audio

A spate of violent deaths of local Māori women in Whanganui has got the community declaring "enough is enough".

More than a hundred years since armed constabulary troops desecrated the peaceful Taranaki settlement Parihaka, the Crown is owning up to its wrongs. Video