Te Ao Māori

A crowd of hundreds conducted a powhiri this week to mark the inaugural Kiingi Tūheitia Portraiture award exhibition in Wellington.

A little under 130 Maori artists submitted their artworks which… Audio

The Department of Conservation is asking the public to report vandals and fly-tippers desecrating Te Kuiti's Mangaokewa Reserve - a site sacred to the Ngāti Rora hapū.

Caves in the Waitomo reserve… Audio

An Air New Zealand passenger was so impressed by a pilot's use of te reo Maori over the intercom he just had to meet and thank him. When he discovered the pilot wasn't Maori, he was astonished ... and… Audio

Former Gisborne police officer Tui Keenan tells us about sharing her skills with local whanau and rangatahi - teaching them how to forage, hunt and fish. Audio, Gallery

One in four tamariki and rangatahi in state care don't feel they can contact their birth families as much as they'd like to.

The statistic is just one finding taken from an Oranga Tamariki survey of… Audio

Awa Pūoro ki te Ao and the Alexander Library in Whanganui are offering a Taonga pūoro kit that can be borrowed from the library. Audio

Rua Bioscience Co-founder Manu Caddie is with Justine Murray and talks about setting up the business, providing employment in their community, and what advice he has for Māori or Iwi interested in… Audio

Earlier this week, Hastings announced it was establishing two Maori wards, but Napier has not, opting to wait til later in the year, arguing it didn't have time to properly consult the community… Audio

It is deadline day for councils throughout the country to approve Māori wards - if they are to be in place before next year's local body elections. Māori wards are a mechanism to correct the… Audio

The government's calling it unprecedented - more than a billion dollars of targeted funding for Māori in the Budget.

Health and housing are at the top of the list but there's one complaint,  Whānau… Audio

A push to revive te reo Māori at the top of South Island has been taking place in Blenheim. The sold out two day language-symposium - Te Kaiaotanga o Te Reo - encourages and helps whānau to learn te… Audio

Māori will be the focus of this country's first trial of screening for lung cancer.

It's been made possible by a grant of nearly $2 million from the Health Research Council and the Global Alliance… Audio

Revitalising te reo Māori in a region with no native speakers starts with individual whānau. 

That's the message being delivered to a sold-out audience of almost 500 people at Marlborough's first… Audio

A flotilla of waka have arrived at Tauranga Harbour - kicking off the first national waka hourua festival. These are the traditional double-hulled canoes on which people explored the Pacific Ocean and… Audio

The government has pumped $200 million into Māori job initiatives over the last year - and lifting Māori incomes and skills is one of the priorities for Thursday's Budget.

Iwi and Māori business' say… Audio

There were scenes of jubilation in Hastings yesterday after the council decided to add Māori wards for next year's local body elections.

But just a few hours earlier in twin city Napier it was a… Audio

Ngāi Tahu says Judith Collins' claim the government plans to transfer all South Island water infrastructure to a new entity half-owned by the Iwi is just plain wrong.

Dr Te Maire Tau, chairman of… Audio

The Ahuwhenua Young Maori Farmer Award was given out on Friday, the award is to recognise talented young Maori farmers and growers and to encourage Young Maori to think of farming as a career. Quinn… Audio

Producer Justine Murray visits Maanu Paul at his home in Ohope Beach where he spins a few yarns about growing up with his grandmothers, his interpretation of the maramataka, and how he snuffed out a… Audio