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.

Maimoatia went straight to number one, bumping Justin Timberlake's "Can't Stop the Feeling".

Get down with some sweet music in the chiefly language and some wicked slam poetry to close down your Maori Language Week celebrations tomorrow.

Auckland local board election candidate Tiaria Fletcher says the Māori language has changed so much since her childhood that she is no longer confident to use it.

Paora Maxwell said it was never the intention to remove the word Maori from its brand.

Learn about some of the most famous Māori pūrākau or legends during Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, or Māori language week.

The young star of a new bilingual television series talks about art imitating life.

A new computer-based Māori-language learning program is achieving extraordinary results by giving students practical exercises.

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.

Australian Amy Perrett became the first woman assistant referee in Super Rugby on Saturday, she talks to Laura about going to the Olympics An Auckland apartment owner is offering, what may appear to be a welcome reprieve from the housing crisis, at $115 for a bed in a shared room, including water, electricity and unlimited WiFi. But it comes with a hitch And we celebrate Māori Language Week

Facebook is on the verge of signing a deal with the Maori Language Commission to develop a tool which will translate posts into te reo Maori.

A musician who now leads the Maori Language Commission wants to make Maori language compulsory in primary schools.

Rawiri Paratene reckons he could be the most well-travelled New Zealander in the world - and even if he's not, his travels have still made history.

COMMENT: There I was, dry-mouthed, hands trembling, clutching my cue cards in sweaty hands. It was my final assessment for the Maori language course.

Maori youth are not speaking in Te Reo Maori because it lacks the "cool" factor and expressions for social media, a Massey University study has found.

Two Maori Television receptionists will have to prove they are fluent in Te Reo Maori to keep their jobs.

To peek into a classroom in certain parts of Auckland is to understand what our country's ethnic make-up will be in a quarter of a century's time.

Kaihatu Te Kenehi Teira, of Heritage New Zealand, said a wahi tupuna is a place important to Maori for ancestral significance and cultural and traditional values.

Kura hourua is just one of a number of initiatives aimed at lifting Maori educational achievement but compared with other models it provides much greater autonomy and freedom.

The All Blacks will travel to the Rugby World Cup with a fresh understanding of the haka and what it means to be a New Zealander following a special visit to a Ngati Toa marae last night.

St Peter's College are making it "cool" to korero with boys learning some of today's most common teenage expressions in Te reo Maori.

St Peter’s College are making it “cool” to korero with boys learning some of today’s most common teenage expressions in Te reo Maori.

Women outnumber men in every Māori tribe and the imbalance is growing, new research shows.

Playing for New Zealand by the time she's 17 is the goal ... and Tiana's well on the way.

The New Zealand Herald, with Māori Television, is marking New Zealand's 40th Māori Language Week with Māori words and phrases for a different theme each day.

Forty years ago, in April 1975, a high profile protest march from the Far North to Wellington was being planned to co-ordinate with September 14, 1975.