Stories by Moana Ellis

A national science challenge study of Māori brain health will draw on whakairo (carving), karakia (prayer and incantation), mōteatea (chanted song-poetry) and other traditional sources to understand…

An iwi health research institute is calling for rongoā Māori to take its "rightful place" in the way Aotearoa cares for people.

A new mental health crisis response team will be established in Whanganui with $3.5 million from the Proceeds of Crime Fund.

The amount of cargo being shipped through Whanganui is set to triple with new investment to boost coastal shipping around the country.

A Māori public health advocate and researcher has become the first indigenous woman appointed to lead the World Federation of Public Health Associations.

Whanganui District Council has delegated the city's Mayor to lobby for a Green Party member's Bill to reduce alcohol harm.

Iwi say they are fed up with being wrongly accused of being a barrier to progress.

An Australian politician is consulting with iwi on how they gained the protection of legal personhood for the Whanganui River with the aim of extending protections across the ditch.

A Ruapehu District councillor says efforts will continue to put in place a plan for Three Waters reforms that protect property rights and community voice.

A central North Island iwi leader says hapū want their own authentic stories taught in the Aotearoa New Zealand histories curriculum.

A Whanganui iwi leader says the government's decision to ease Covid-19 measures at this time is a disgrace and shocking.

Historic sites in and around Tongariro National Park are to be restored by Ngāti Tūwharetoa hapū as part of a new Jobs for Nature project.

The number of people with Covid-19 in Whanganui Hospital is climbing as the hospital also deals with a growing number of cases among staff.

Whanganui District Council's approach to climate change has helped the city win international recognition for the seventh time.

The Ministry of Education says 170 of the Whanganui, Manawatū and Taranaki's 176 primary, intermediate and secondary schools reported cases among students or staff in the 10 days to Monday.

An iwi collective working across four North Island regions fears there are many cases they don't know about.

Flocks of kererū, kākā and tītī could make a comeback in the central North Island if a tribe's vision for a 2700ha 'inland island' sanctuary moves ahead.

The Department of Conservation has closed the Whanganui River to kayakers and canoeists on the upper and middle reaches after four paddlers tested positive for Covid-19.

Covid-19 is spreading fastest among children and teens in the Whanganui and Rangitīkei Covid-19 outbreak as the region faces the second-lowest rate of child 5 to 11 vaccinations in the country.

Māori uptake of first and second vaccinations has stalled as Covid-19 vaccination teams meet "a final wall of resistance", says a Māori health analyst.

Eleven new Covid-19 cases have been found in the rural Rangitīkei area of Marton, bringing the number of active cases in the Marton outbreak to 20.

The museum's famed collection of taonga Māori will be overseen by a Māori curatorial collective in the first arrangement of its kind in Aotearoa.

Whanganui city's economic development agency wants to see locals swiping right on a new matchmaking app set up to pair local businesses with skilled workers.

A $16 million marae renovation programme is drawing to a close, with a third of marae in the west of the North Island, the top of the South Island and the Chatham Islands benefiting from major…

A mobile Covid-19 team in Rangitīkei will head into back-block farm stations in the drive to close the vaccination gap for Māori as the country braces for Omicron.