Hosted at Te Paepae - the cultural heartbeat of the festival - groups of about 20 at a time are being encouraged to connect with te ao Māori through games and drills.

However, unlike English, te reo Maori is a transparent language – the written form is completely phonetic with a 100% ...

Using structured literacy to teach te reo Māori is more about an educational ideology than about understanding the essence of ...

Get ready for a brilliant night of music when acclaimed Māori musician Stan Walker will make his Maui debut at the Maui Arts ...

2007 — Lance Mackey wins the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, becoming the first musher to win major long-distance North American sled dog races back-to-back. On Feb. 20, Mackey won his third consecutive ...

New Zealand is deeply divided over the Treaty Principles Bill, which seeks to reinterpret the de facto constitution. Now the ...

For many years local Māori have wondered if there was a place for Māori in this space but now there could be no doubt that there is, he said. “He whenua i riro i te tinihanga, koinei tetahi o ...

The former policeman and Bay of Plenty No.8 has taken charge of both the Maori All Blacks and New Zealand’s second-string All Blacks XV, with whom he enjoyed successes over both Ireland A in ...

The Black Ferns have two wins and two second-place finishes in four tournaments this season. New Zealand celebrated the win by doing the Haka, the traditional Maori war dance. Australia defeated ...

The Canadian women’s rugby squad showed energy and passion, scoring on the opening kickoff then rolling to a 27-10 victory over the United States to finish seventh on Sunday at the HSBC SVNS ...

He said this small sign of support also came from a place of deep gratitude. When Bacher was going through a tough time, it was Māori communities that gave him some of the best support he had ever ...

Te Pāti Maori had been the ones who had asked the police to carry ... It was concerning StatsNZ did not have controls in place for the protection of data and it was appropriate that its chief ...