Te Ao Māori

There are renewed calls for greater consultation and consideration of Māori needs as new alcohol laws are considered.

The Aotearoa Māori Surf Champs are back on this year in Northland after being cancelled due to Covid-19.

A new study has found that health inequities between Māori and non-Māori adults cost more than $860 million a year.

The warning comes from an independent evaluation of a trial-run of online tests in reading, writing and maths involving 16,000 mostly Year 10 students in July.

The first Taranaki Heritage Month is being praised for being brave enough to tackle darker elements of the province's colonial history.

With a lower life expectancy, health disparities, and fewer savings, new research has highlighted the grim prospect of retirement for many Māori.

As more and more Māori reclaim their language, many are growing curious about the rangi or dialect of their own iwi, but for some, this is proving challenging.

Five hundred people gathered to pōwhiri New Zealand's first mayor to have also stood for a Māori ward, and his Far North District Council.

A group of Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei artists have joined an effort to try and turn around plummeting breast screening numbers for wāhine Māori.

An education symposium aims to address racism in schools and promote excellence for Māori students.

Illegal tree planting has caused irreversible damage to a sacred historic pā settlement on Ōwairaka / Mount Albert in Auckland.

More than 300 people turned out to a community meeting in Whanganui last night to fight plans to sell water from an artesian bore near Whanganui River.

Ngāti Rangi's Treaty settlement with the Crown recognises its rangatiratanga over the maunga and grants it a say in decisions - but it didn't even get a heads-up phone call when the skifields went… Audio

For the first time in its history, women in New Zealand's Parliament will have an equal share of seats in the House.

The impact of Covid-19 on Māori will be under the spotlight in new research that aims to improve future pandemic responses.

Mana whenua in Clive (Waipūreku) in Hawke's Bay (Te-Matau-a-Māui) are taking bold steps to reclaim the name of a nearby river, which they say was "usurped" from them.

Analysis - Legal experts say the weighing up of tikanga Māori in the decision to posthumously exonerate Peter Ellis of child sex offences marks a seismic moment in the country's legal history.