Te Ao Māori

Kiingi Tuuheitia will attend the inaugural meeting of Traditional Pacific Leaders in Hawai'i in June where climate change and environmental protection are likely to be at the top of discussions.

Mana whenua are rediscovering a connection with the night sky, a Māori astronomer says.

The founder of School Strike 4 Climate in New Zealand says students would have been at school today if the government had taken action.

Māori ward councillors say the government's plan to reintroduce referendums for councils to bring in their role is absurd and cruel.

A tangata whenua caucus member says changes to the plan include a reduced focus on institutional racism and colonial racism against Māori. Audio

Reversing councils' ability to decide on Māori wards is "complete overreach by central government", LGNZ says.

The move to help find solutions for ageing water infrastructure has the support of North Canterbury's mayors.

Councils that brought in Māori wards without polling residents will need to hold one - or scrap the wards they had set up, the government says.

Many are enjoying the new curriculum, according to a review, but teachers want more help deciding what to teach. Audio

The Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations has knocked back calls for the Crown to buy back land being occupied in Northland.

Māori were blamed for the 1913 smallpox epidemic and confined to their villages. That was just the beginning of decades of restrictions.

A large gathering marked the 160th commemorations of the battle of Ōrākau today, as the process to return the site to iwi hands nears its end.

Kiingi Tuheitia and a Cook Islands leader are inviting other Polynesian countries to get behind the proposal.

Not content with simply playing the guitar, Nui Stretch spent more than a decade learning how to make them, finding out "what actually makes those things tick". Audio

Whānau of Mangaroa Marae are gathering in the Hawke's Bay settlement of Bridge Pa over Easter weekend to celebrate.

The broadcaster has survived the last two decades by staying true to its kaupapa, despite challenges, an advocate says.