Te Ao Māori

A festival that started as a way to bring children back together after the Covid pandemic has already grown into one of the biggest events on the Bay of Islands cultural calendar.

An Auckland University waka ama team full of first-time competitors will be competing at the world's largest long distance canoe race in Hawaii this week.

Te Tāpui Atawhai has won the Supreme Award at the 2023 Diversity Awards for its work to improve Māori outcomes.

Getting things wrong at the start of a mental health crisis makes everything worse for patients, mental health workers and emergency services staff, an expert says.

New figures from Stats NZ show Māori farms are much larger than the average, and they are running a lot more stock.

After decades away, one of the last survivors of the historic Hatrick riverboat fleet has returned to the awa.

The deal reached earlier this month would give "absolute certainty" the airport could keep operating for at least the next 35 years, Ngāi Takoto leader Rangitane Marsden says.

Sky Sport will be offering te reo Māori coverage for this year's Rugby World Cup. Audio

Members of Taranaki's eight iwi have voted to approve the redress deal for the confiscation of Taranaki Maunga negotiated with the Crown.

The Māori Development minister has announced two appointments to the board of Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori, the Māori Language Commission.

Twenty homes in a new papakāinga development at Te Āwhina Marae in Motueka are expected to be ready by early next year.

Māori health advocates are optimistic they will retain their new power in the public system even if the National wins October's election.

The veteran Māori activist and author Te Ringa Mangu Mihaka, also known as Dun Mihaka, has died. Audio

Parihaka trustees are optimistic no drilling for oil and gas will be allowed on the pā's historical land, despite silence from the Minister of Energy and Resources.

No major policies were announced, but party leader Chris Hipkins says Labour has a very good track record for Māori, and there is still more work to come.

Two Otago graduates have made history by completing their PhD oral defence assessments within their own Māori communities.

The Whakatōhea Treaty Settlement Bill received its inaugural reading in the halls of Parliament on Thursday.