A Māori journalist has made history in New Zealand by becoming the first person with traditional facial markings to host a primetime news program on national television.

Tens of thousands of people have marched on the New Zealand parliament in Wellington to protest against a bill that critics say strikes at the core of the country’s founding principles and ...

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, 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 ...

Tens of thousands of people have marched on the New Zealand parliament in Wellington to protest against a bill that critics ...

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The Māori Roll: For voters of Māori descent who want to vote in one of the seven Māori electorates. The General Roll: For ...

Freshwater ecosystems are lifelines for both people and wildlife in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Māori knowledge, or mātauranga Māori, includes intricate understandings of river flows, fish ...

Ngā Wai hono i te pō, 27, has been crowned the new Māori Queen after her father Kiingi Tuheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero VII was laid to rest on Sept. 5. She's only the second female to be ...

Māori lawmakers performed a traditional haka dance to protest a New Zealand bill that could redefine the country's relationship with Indigenous people.

There aren’t specific statistics on the number of Māori people in the wine industry. According to the Bureau of Economic Research in New Zealand , there are nearly 24,000 Māori-owned ...

Tens of thousands of people have marched on the New Zealand parliament in Wellington to protest against a bill that critics say strikes at the core of the country’s founding principles and ...