Te Ao Māori

The Māori Council is targetting Māori families in a new campaign to end violence and keep their children out of state care.

An executive director of the Māori Council says holding young people in police cells is a breach of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

The chef behind a first of its kind hāngī eatery in Taranaki says she wants to help bring Māori kai into the culinary mainstream while giving something back to the community that raised her.

A Wairoa family illegally occupying a block of Māori-owned land has been given one more week to leave or face arrest.

A Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment fund is investing $4 million of taxpayer money in combining western science and Māori traditional knowledge.

The first Auckland-wide census of people living without shelter shows nearly 43 percent were Māori, with a similar proportion living in temporary accommodation.

The Crown will release a suite of short digital language lessons this week as part of its new Māori language strategy Te Maihi Karauna.

The number of Māori employed by DHBs must double in the next 15 years to meet the needs of the country's most vulnerable people, according to a new report.

Parliament has passed the third and final reading of a landmark bill that gives Ngāti Porou greater rights to marine and coastal resources.

Whānau Māori developing under-utilised freehold land is the focus of a new $56.1 million government investment.

The Waitangi Tribunal has heard the ban on prisoners voting is underpinned by racism and disproportianately impacts on Māori.

The Crown has opened its case against a man accused of stealing more than a million dollars from a Far North Māori Trust.

Master waka builder and navigator Sir Hekenukumai Busby has been laid to rest in the Far North.

Up to 100 women who have had children taken by Oranga Tamariki are expected at a hui in Raglan today.

Oranga Tamariki is being accused of bullying and racism by the Māori midwife who fought to prevent a young mother from having her baby taken away.

Māori leaders in the fight for climate change say the government needs to let Māori determine climate change policy - not just be consulted.

Iwi in Taranaki are upset the government has put their ancestral land up for oil and gas drilling.

The Ākarana Sarah Whānau Trust in Hastings has today opened its newly completed communal housing development at Bridge Pa.

The government has made a grant of $1 million to the trust that runs the Waitangi Treaty Grounds, to help it recover from fraud.

Wellington is beefing up its commitment to embrace te reo Māori.