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Lecture theatre packed for Puanga film evenings
Whanganui's celebration of Puanga is going from strength to strength. The Maori New Year festivities stretch from June through to
Whanganui's celebration of Puanga is going from strength to strength. The Maori New Year festivities stretch from June through to
Maori pop phenomenon Poi E is sung with gusto and abiding love at the close of the Patea Maori Club night every Monday night. For
COMMENT: Many cultures across the world have suffered horrible cruelties but haven't all become killers and thieves.
Official targets for Maori primary pupils are likely to be missed by as much as 20 per cent in some cases.
Maori tribal leaders will today sign a "covenant" with the nation's children, promising to respect them and make childhood a time of "joy and light".
Toi Katipa never expected that he and his family would end up sleeping at the marae because they had become homeless.
An Auckland brewery says it's been threatened over a collection of craft beers depicting Maori ancestral legends which critics say are culturally inappropriate.
Labour's Te Tai Tokerau MP Kelvin Davis says he is not worried the Maori Party and Mana Party might do a deal.
A Dunedin runanga says freedom campers are dumping human waste on its burial grounds.
The Ministry of Health has defended its stance on refusing to fund a Maori safe-sleeping device.
Tonight's opening movie of the New Zealand International Film Festival captures a magical moment in our pop culture.
COMMENT: As the campaign for Maori Language Week 2016 concludes, it's a phrase that resonates with the changing societal landscape for Te Reo Maori.
City buildings are the canvas for Maori myth of creation told in dance, light and music.
Removing someone like Ngāpari Nui from his voluntary role at Whanganui Prison will do nothing to bring down the "shameful" rate
The Sky Tower will be lit up in orange again this week, during the final week of Auckland's Matariki Festival celebrating Maori New Year.
Masks and quick character changes lend vitality and humour to the tragic love story.
The Ministry of Health refuses to fund a simple sleeping pod for babies so they might more safely sleep alongside their mothers.
The young star of a new bilingual television series talks about art imitating life.
The tone of this Maori Language Week seems more relaxed and positive, less earnest and educative.
Mōhio tonu atu tētahi whānau o Rotorua he pai kē tana mahi i te rongonui toro rere o tā rātou kanikani poi ki te waiata a Beyonce.
South Taranaki Maori leaders are calling for the chief executive of the Corrections Department to resign after a kaumatua was removed
A new computer-based Māori-language learning program is achieving extraordinary results by giving students practical exercises.
Members of Ngati Ruanui iwi are infuriated their kaumatua Ngapari Nui has been stood down from voluntary work at a prison because of his Black Power affiliations.
Milk processing firm Miraka is tripling production to meet a growing thirst for its UHT products in China.
Tearepa Kahi's documentary Poi E: The Story of Our Song debuts at the NZ International Film Festival this month in time for Matariki, the Maori New Year.
When the women's Black Sticks take to the hockey turf in Rio next month, they will have a special advantage.
Facebook has confirmed that it is working with the Māori Language Commission on "the appropriate use of Māori language" on its platform.
A musician who now leads the Maori Language Commission wants to make Maori language compulsory in primary schools.