Te Ao Māori

The North Island Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency has announced it is spearheading a Māori-led inquiry into Oranga Tamariki's practices and its outcomes for Māori.

A Porirua gang member is putting unwanted fish heads and frames to good use by delivering them to hungry families in his community.

The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa has made 824 Māori place names official.

Final plans for the strengthening and redevelopment of Taranaki Cathedral in New Plymouth - which include an education centre focusing on its role in the Taranaki land wars - have been revealed.

The Māori Council is calling for a Royal Commission to investigate Pharmac.

The government has dismissed repeated calls for greater Māori input on polytechnic reforms, says Skills Active chairperson Sam Napia.

The High Court has awarded $500,000 in costs to Toni Waho for being wrongly removed from Te Kōhanga Reo National Trust Board.

Whanganui High School has stripped its gyms of their colonial names and replaced them with Māori names to "better reflect our nation".

Iwi leaders say dealing with Oranga Tamariki is difficult and frustrating and it's going to take huge improvements before a partnership between them will work.

With just a few days to wait for the Matariki constellation to rise in our skies, the Māori New Year is almost here.

Support workers remain unconvinced that new Oranga Tamariki laws will deliver immediate improvements for Māori in the system.

In some cases babies need to be removed from their whānau, Labour Māori Caucus co-chair Willie Jackson says - citing the horrific deaths of the Kahui twins - but only as a last resort. Audio

The cost to Waitara leaseholders of settling one of New Zealand's longest running land disputes is becoming clearer - and many are not happy about it.

Tensions are rising in rural Manawatū after a volunteer chopped a phallus off a Māori carving standing sentry to welcome hikers at a popular walking track.

Advocates supporting an open letter calling for the government to stop uplifting babies say the public have had enough and urgent change is needed.

With Oranga Tamariki still "uplifting" three Māori babies from their families each week, a petition says the organisation is not living up to its Māori name, and it must be changed.

Campaigners trying to protect whenua in Auckland are urging the government to intervene to prevent an occupation like Bastion Point.

The Wellington City Council has been unable to find a single consent for construction work at Tapu Te Ranga Marae, despite the building passing a Warrant of Fitness in April this year.

Many of the country's marae don't have smoke alarms and very few have sprinklers, Fire and Emergency says, which is putting marae assets worth millions of dollars at risk.