Stories by Meriana Johnsen

Pasifika people have ended up needing hospital treatment for Covid-19 more than any other ethnic group in New Zealand, while half of those who've ended up in intensive care have been Māori, newly…

A prominent Māori health campaigner wants a commitment in writing that a new Māori Health Authority will be independent, with control over its own budget and power to commission its own services.

A prison reform group has hit back at Kelvin Davis over his claims their pamphlet on prisoner rights incites violence, saying he is simply trying to distract attention from the huge problems in the…

Manawatū-Whanganui Regional Council has apologised to hapū along Whanganui River for granting a resource consent that saw part of their ancestral maunga bulldozed.

Māori health providers have urged the government to fund and train their workforce to administer the Covid-19 vaccine to secure coverage of their remote communities, and to overcome vaccine hesitancy.

Corrections has defended the implementation of its Māori prison reduction strategy to MPs, saying that despite delays caused by Covid-19, it was on track.

Some Māori health providers are "frustrated" over missing out on masks that the Health Ministry says have been distributed via other channels.

There will be a specific vaccination rollout plan for Māori focused on giving them confidence in receiving the vaccine, the Minister for the Covid-19 Response says.

There is no other way to stop tamariki Māori being disproportionately taken into state care than to disestablish Oranga Tamariki, the Waitangi Tribunal has been told.

While there's no shortage of Māori in the Beehive, it has long been a struggle for tangata whenua to be represented at a local government level. Meriana Johnsen explains the issue.

"So one of the tasks that we're working through with Māori groups, but also with non-Māori, is how we do that effectively.

The minister of education has criticised mega-polytech Te Pūkenga for not meeting the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi in relation to the restructure at Auckland's Unitec.

Māori astronomers will be using the stars and moon phases to set a different date for the Matariki public holiday each year.

Tributes have been paid to a formidable South Taranaki woman who held a wealth of whakapapa knowledge.

Support for the restoration of indigenous names to native plants and animals has been gaining traction.

The National Iwi Chairs pandemic response group has called for the number of Kiwis returning home to be restricted to 1500 a week.

People over the age of 50 in the Far North are being urged by iwi leaders to stay home and those outside the region are being told to avoid travelling there.

The chairman of the Rātana Church executive has called for the return of its own political party, rather than continuing to align with Labour.

Internal conflict within Rātana hasn't dampened the spirits of hundreds of morehu who descended on the pā in celebration of the birthday of the faith's founder. Video

The National Māori Pandemic group has said the protection of Māori will be at the centre of planning for the Covid-19 vaccine rollout.

A Coromandel environmental group has been ordered by the High Court to pay $79,000 in costs to the Crown.

A renowned Ngāti Kahungunu spiritual leader - remembered for the wisdom she imparted not only on her iwi but te ao Māori - will be laid to rest near Gisborne today.

A new report highlighting inhumane treatment of prisoners shows Corrections is not putting its Hōkai Rangi strategy into practice and has lost all its credibility, a former prisoner and justice reform…

Māori and Pasifika female academics are paid nearly $8000 less a year than their non-Māori and Pasifika male counterparts, new research has revealed.

Stuff has been praised for owning up to perpetuating racist narratives about tangata whenua but academics have expressed scepticism that it will lead to lasting change.