The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain's theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...

The Nurses Organisation is calling for an urgent increase in the number of Māori nurses and says the health system needs to ...

A Māori academic says that although New Zealand's founding document is a partnership between Māori and the Crown, it is ...

Whau councillor Kerrin Leoni wants to be the first Māori mayor of Tāmaki Makaurau. Leoni (Ngāti Paoa, Ngāitakoto and Ngati ...

Thousands of people have attended events in Waitangi in northern New Zealand, to celebrate the country's national day.

With all eyes on Waitangi this week as the nation marks the national day, in Tauranga, another important decision needs to be made regarding who will become the city's next Māori ward councillor.

its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land are people before. The pristine, snow-capped ...

A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognised as a legal person on Thursday after a new law granted it all the rights and responsibilities of a human being.

The people she spoke to included families trying to get into their first home, Māori who have owned homes through generations, people who have built on Māori land and iwi who are trying to move ...