Stories by Laura Bootham

Courts could see fewer tāngata whenua in prison and re-offendending if a more holistic model was used, say Māori working in the justice system.

Māori aim to make their artistic mark at a world famous arts festival for indigenous people.

New research has found Māori score the highest for work-life balance and life satisfaction when compared with seven other cultures.

Rotorua Boys' High School says it can't understand why none of its rugby players have received a call up to the New Zealand Schools' Development camp.

The proposed National Environmental Standard does protect areas prone to erosion, the Forest Owners Association says.

A Hawke's Bay iwi is keen to one day run the area's prison, saying it could operate it more effectively than the Department of Corrections.

An isolated kura on the East Coast of the North Island is to share its ultra-fast broadband with the community at a reduced cost.

A trust fund set up to provide Māori with the skills to look after taonga has widened its scope due to a growing interest in Te Māori Exhibition and taonga.

The Māori Party is calling for a national hui on the issues facing the country's six remaining Māori boarding schools.

The Reserve Bank's not on the money with its superficial approach to new banknotes designs, a Gisborne iwi says.

Embattled iwi leader Sonny Tau has withdrawn from a competition to represent Ngai Tāwake on the Tūhoronuku Independent Mandated Authority.

One of the country's largest iwi says the Government would be abdicating its responsibility for vulnerable tamariki if parts of Child, Youth and Family were privatised.

The Presbyterian Church has described a Maori girls' boarding college under threat of closure as a 'jewel' that should not be lost.

A Māori boarding school's board of trustees is holding hui with its owner to find strategies to stop it from closing.

Researchers studying traditional rongoā Māori say there is an urgent need to increase the number of healers to stop the knowledge from being lost forever.

An expert in social work is warning that any move to shift Child, Youth and Family services to the private sector could endanger Māori tamariki.

Researchers say malnutrition in older Māori is less likely to happen if an holistic Māori world view is acknowledged.

A team of young Māori paddlers, Ngā Tauira Māori, are training hard for the world's longest and most challenging outrigger canoe races in Hawaii next month.

A credit union's decision to provide banking facilities has been met with relief by residents after Westpac decided to close the only bank left in town.

Labour MP Nanaia Mahuta is critical of the Government's amended Health and Safety Reform Bill, saying its changes put Māori workers at risk.

The Far North Mayor is praising the Government's decision to spend up to $14 million to upgrade Northland College in Kaikohe.

The Government says it is optimistic that a treaty settlement agreement can be reached with Ngāpuhi by the end of next year.

The Freshwater Iwi Leaders Group has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Local Government New Zealand which it says will make local and central government more accountable to Māori.

When kuia and kaumātua say Māori vowels are not pronounced like they used to be, they'd be right. Audio

The Waitangi Tribunal questioned the Solicitor General about the secrecy surrounding the proposed Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement at a hearing in Wellington yesterday.