Alison Jones and Kuni Jenkins have been researching early engagement between Maori and Pakeha - and have turned up real gems.

Beauty, mystery, death and destruction await Jim Eagles when he makes a long-anticipated visit to the Chatham Islands.

Maori land protesters have been removed from a Far North sailing club on a District Council reserve, with 10 arrested and departing in a police van.

There would be plenty of mana in customary marine title without the power to exclude the public from sacred sand.

Festivities marked the 25-year anniversary of Uluru, formerly known as Ayers Rock, being returned to its traditional owners.

An old postcard has revealed skeletons under the Mt Maunganui beach and an academic says a new bill would allow access to be restricted.

The Waitangi Tribunal has released a scathing assessment of the Crown's performance on te reo Maori in the last 25 years, urging action to halt the decline of the language.

The Maori Party has indicated it is rethinking its support of the new foreshore and seabed bill after pressure from Hone Harawira and Act.