Te Ao Māori

Far North District Council's lease extension for Houhora Heads motor camp has angered local iwi Ngai Takoto, who opposed the move from the outset.

A new study has shown police are almost twice as likely to send a first-time Māori offender to court, than a Pākehā.

An Auckland hapū says it is angered by the lack of engagement over a plan by Auckland Transport to relocate the regional bus terminal.

NZ Golf has learnt its lesson after a major blunder last year in which the winner of the New Zealand Open was bestowed with a fake korowai.

Rocket Lab says the $8.3 million Provincial Growth Fund investment in Mahia roadworks will allow the space company to launch 120 rockets a year.

Opinion - We need to interrogate our platforming of white women for doing work indigenous folk and people of colour have been doing for generations, writes Laura O'Connell Rapira.

Figures released to RNZ show of 437 benefit sanctions applied against people with an outstanding warrant with children in 2018, over 80 percent of those were against Māori.

The Māori Party candidate for Waiariki - Rawiri Waititi - believes the younger generation will be the key to the party getting back into Parliament this year. Audio

Plans to discharge 20 million litres of sewage into Lake Rotorua has prompted a call for the lake to be given personhood to protect it.

Mana whenua are being stretched to capacity to help solve the capital's water crisis, a Taranaki whānui representative has said.

Ngāi Te Rangi chief executive Paora Stanley says local iwi can play a crucial role in reducing gang violence in the Western Bay of Plenty.

A kaumātua says the whānau of a boy severely injured are distraught and devastated and says Oranga Tamariki need to accept responsibility for their part in the case. Audio

The owners of the disputed land at Ihumātao say for seven months they've halted development at the request of the Prime Minister, but that can't continue indefinitely.

Fletcher Building is hopeful the Ihumātao land dispute can be resolved soon but says it cannot hold off indefinitely.

The whānau of a prisoner on hunger strike wanting to raise awareness about the need for Māori self-determination and sovereignty - says he has started refusing liquids.

Auditor General John Ryan says there is no clear vision across local and central government for water management, and no clarity about what the main issues are.

Plunket's new branding acknowledges its founding Māori midwives and sends a signal it wants to better cater to whānau Māori.

A secretive group who spent four years tunnelling into the side of a country road in search of a mythical race of pre-Polynesian giants' skeletons have called off their dig, Susan Strongman reports. Audio

Film maker Renae Maihi hopes the conversation about racism will continue, after Sir Robert dropped his defamation case against her.