Te Ao Māori

The bill that will require councils to hold polls on Māori wards has passed its third reading.

The new rules mean Northland's councils must poll their communities at the next election if they want to keep their Māori wards.

The Labour Party says the coalition government is unfairly targeting Māori, while the ACT party says Labour is creating division.

Māoritanga and pride remains at the forefront as the haka makes its mark on the softball world stage.

Kura kaupapa Māori are hailing a Waitangi Tribunal decision as a major breakthrough in their push for self-determination.

Te Pāti Māori is warning a move to overturn a court decision risks a return of the big foreshore and seabed protests of 20 years ago. Audio

More than 120 people in Wairoa are living in temporary accommodation and there are more who need it.

The government is planning to make it harder for Māori to make customary claims on coastlines.

Racist targeting by police and social workers and harsher sentences by youth courts significantly contributed to over-representation of Māori among the abused.

First Person - When he walked into the prison yard for the first time as a teenager, having never been there before, Dr Rawiri Waretini-Karena already knew most the men in there.