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Car loads of people queued up at Auckland's first drive-thru vaccination site at a marae today, an initiative many hope will boost low vaccination rates among Māori.

Māori health providers are accelerating efforts to close a gap that's left far fewer Māori vaccinated against Covid-19 than any other group.

Whānau at the isolated Parihaka settlement in Taranaki say they are well set up to keep vulnerable members of the community safe during lockdown.

The group tasked with creating a new Māori Health Authority has been told to ensure tino rangatiratanga is embedded at every level and iwi partnership boards have teeth.

Families mourning the loss of their loved ones are grappling with tighter restrictions on funerals and tangihanga, which prevent them from being present at any stage of the funeral process.

For the first time in 26 years a bilingual song has been included in the APRA Silver Scrolls' top five finalists.

A collective of iwi is urging Māori to take their whānau for Covid jabs without delay.

East Coast hapū want checkpoints at the boundaries of the rohe to help protect Tairāwhiti communities from the Delta variant, but the acting minister of emergency management does not support them. Audio

Northland iwi say a police decision to create fixed checkpoints at the region's entrances more than a week after the country moved to alert level 4 is too little, too late.

The Royal Commission into Abuse in Care has postponed its Māori investigation public hearing that was due to start early next month.

A developer plans to build 240 residential lots, a retirement village, 13 access lots, eight reserve lots, and seven public road lots on land considered by Taiwhakaea hapū members to be an ancient…

Almost 40 percent of Tairāwhiti residents have received at least one dose of the vaccine - with Māori health providers and a DHB joining forces.

Tributes are being paid for respected Ngāti Kahungunu leader Des Ratima, who died aged 69.

A Māori-led Covid-19 vaccination clinic in Hawke's Bay is experiencing unprecedented demand.

The chair of a South Auckland marae says it needs support to keep its health and social services going through an extended lockdown.

The annual celebration commemorating the Māori monarch Kiingi Tuheitia VII begins today, but has been moved online.

Auckland iwi Ngāti Whātua Orakei says it is geared up to assist its community throughout the extended lockdown.

Māori health providers in Taranaki fear misinformation spread via social media is partly to blame for the poor vaccination rates among Māori in the region.

Māori health professionals are warning of the threat the Covid-19 Delta variant could pose for Māori and Pasifika communities, and are urging more to be done to address equity when the vaccine rollout…