By Kelvin McDonald of Whakaata Maori King Tuheitia has accepted an invitation to become a patron of Starship Child Health – Aotearoa`s largest child healthcare organisation.The appointment was announced during Saturday`s Koroneihana... Read...

By James Perry of Whakaata Maori Rohan O`Neill-Stevens is by far the youngest of the mayoral candidates in Nelson this year and possibly in the country but he hopes that could be to his advantage in the lead-up to the polls.The... Read...

Shoppers have vowed to buy huge amounts of a popular chocolate block in a bid to annoy critics who labelled the brand`s new label `too woke`.Whittaker`s revealed it was introducing special edition packaging for one of its most popular... Read...

It took a while and ended in seconds as the Te Matau a Maui Hawke`s Bay Maori beat Hawke`s Bay Samoa 26-25 with a last-second try at Farndon Park, Clive, on Saturday.With the intervention of Covid-19, neither unit had fielded a... Read...

By James Perry of Whakaata Maori A Nelson-based carver is on a mission to provide 100 pounamu a month to tamariki in state care.Tū Maia, a partnership between Timoti Moran (Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato, Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti,... Read...

By James Perry of Whakaata Maori A vision to deliver quality kai using whānau recipes has seen Reni Wereta-Gargiulo recognised at the Māori Businesswoman Awards.Wereta-Gargiulo (Ngāti Ruanui, Ngā Rauru Kītahi,... Read...

A man who claims he `found` a 250kg century-old Maori carving on a dirt road – which took six police officers to lift - was considering selling the historical artefact before police raided his home. The stone-carved monument, with... Read...

By Whatitiri Te Wake of Whakaata maori Labour MP Paul Eagle is no stranger to local government, having served as a councillor, and then been elected as the first Māori deputy mayor of Wellington in 2016.But now he is running... Read...

Joel Harrison joins Chris Key this week for another episode of The Mad Monday Podcast!This week, the boys discuss the signs that the Aussie commentators are finally getting some players` Maori names correct finally, find some audio... Read...

By Kelvin McDonald of Whakaata Maori Te Pāti Māori has held its `Matike Mai Matariki` conference in Rotorua which it described as a `conversation starter` focused on decolonising and reindiginising Aotearoa. Pāti... Read...