Te Ao Māori

Māori are being urged to get their local government voting papers in as soon as possible, with voting closing at 12pm this Saturday.

The Waka Ama National Long Distance Championships have started today in Waitangi with entries in the competition the biggest the country has ever seen.

A leading Māori authority is calling for the deconstruction and transformation of Oranga Tamariki in the wake of its failings in the case of murdered five-year-old boy Malachi Subecz. Audio

She's conquered New Zealand boxing - and now Mea Motu is ready to take on the world.

Iwi and Māori health providers are looking towards the next pandemic with a new research project.

Tauranga City Council has formalised an agreement to return a parcel of land in the city centre to mana whenua to right a historic grievance.

Heritage Taranaki is calling for the government to step in and save the historic Barrett St Nurses Home in New Plymouth.

Tauranga City Council has given the green light to a new co-ownership structure for land in the CBD, which the commissioner has described as righting a historical wrong.

The effects of Covid-19, changes in technology and the place of te reo Māori featured heavily in this year's national Ngā Manu Kōrero speech competition.

The remains of more than 60 Māori and Moriori have finally returned home, after more than 70 years of appeals and negotiations.

A Whanganui iwi leader says a plan to extract and sell 750,000 litres a week of groundwater from a bore near the Whanganui River is stealing and confiscation.

Members of Whakatōhea are being encouraged to vote on whether to accept a $100 million settlement with the Crown, which would bring an end to nearly 30 years of negotiation.

Racism towards indigenous people or those from ethnic minorities is experienced at higher rates by people of colour than those perceived as white, new research shows. Audio

A hui of Māori local government candidates has challenged not only councils, but also the iwi leaders who called the meeting.

Research fellow Anita Rangitutia wants to understand how whānau Māori, who are at a high risk of heart disease, modify their behaviour when participating in a kaupapa Māori clinical exercise…

A hill near Tauranga popularly known as Mt Misery has had its Māori name, Maungatūtū, officially recognised.

Police still have no reliable way of recording who is being targeted by hate crimes, despite funding a dedicated team and hundreds of audits in the last year.

After almost 80 years of negotiations with Austria, more than 60 Māori and Moriori ancestral remains will return to Aotearoa, where a pōwhiri will be held at Te Papa on Sunday.

An uncle and his nephew are competing for a new Māori ward in South Taranaki District.

Bilingual road signs and a "no bloody idea" comment by the chairperson of the West Coast Regional Council generated some heat in cyberspace over the weekend.