The chair of a new body to give Māori input into trade negotiations says it’s vital Māori are at the table given the structure of the Māori economy..Read more

The value of the large foreign ownership of New Zealand land and forests is raising alarm bells among Maori..Read more

The Whanganui Land Settlement Negotiation Trust has signed an agreement in principle with the Crown that recognises the importance of values to the iwi..Read more

Iwi will be able to get a better idea how their tamariki and rangatahi are doing in the education system through a new online tool..Read more

The Māori broadcast funding agency is encouraging people to use Māori Language Week as an opportunity to use te reo Māori on Twitter - with the aim of breaking one million reo tweets..Read more

The Government has earmarked $2.7 million towards the infrastructure for a Tauranga papakainga..Read more

The Government is moving to address growing concern about cancer treatment by boosting funding for Pharmac and appointing a national director for cancer control..Read more

Telling stories is how up and coming singer JaLeace Ormsby describes her craft..Read more

Pupils from Whangarei Intermediate along with people under the control of community corrections, Department of Conservastion staff and volunteers and the Ruapekapeka Trust planted trees on Ruapekapeka pa today..Read more

The select committee looking at the Zero Carbon Bill has been told a well-designed climate change policy could lead to substantial health gains..Read more

Pūtea to clean up the rivers flowing into the Kaipara Harbour has been welcomed by a man who wages a daily fight for the awa..Read more

The new chair of Te Ohu Kaimoana says it's the body with the job of talking about Māori fisheries, not outside organisations like LegaSea..Read more

Matapouri is set to get new facilities to cope with growing visitor numbers thanks to a grant from the Tourism Infrastructure Fund..Read more

Southland's Hump Ridge track is to become the tenth Great Walk after a far north option was ruled out because of failure to reach agreement with iwi..Read more

Te Rarawa was out in force last night at Auckland War Memorial Museum to welcome back taonga that had been in the Oceania show in London and Paris..Read more

Associate Education Minister Kelvin Davis has welcomed the first group of teachers studying to improve their te reo Māori through the Te Ahu o te Reo Māori initiative..Read more

The scars on Te Mata Peak could soon be healed, with the granting of a resource consent to undo damage done by construction of a cycle track up the side of the Hawke's Bay landmark..Read more

The North Island Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency has won ringing endorsement from Māori leaders for its inquiry into the Ministry for Children..Read more

The New Zealand Māori Council says the latest suicide statistics show the need for a national suicide plan..Read more

The new Race Relations Commissioner says he wants to make harmonious communities..Read more

Whānau and hapū from Mōtītī Island in the Bay of Plenty have been in the Court of Appeal fighting for regional councils to be able to protect their coastal marine species and habitats from the effects of fishing.Read more

Forestry Minister Shane Jones says iwi Māori need to look for ways to grow more native trees..Read more

One of the people involved in the attempt to prevent Oranga Tamariki uplifting a week old baby from Hawke's Bay Hospital says the incident has allowed wāhine Māori to find their voice and protest at generations of the state intervening in their whānau..Read more

Hastings and Napier district councils are considering a local alcohol policy that would ban new off-licence bottle stores in Flaxmere, Camberley and Maraenui..Read more

The founder of Whānau Ora wants this weekend's hui on Oranga Tamariki to look not just at oversight of the existing agency but at creating an alternative where Māori do things for themselves..Read more