Stories by Meriana Johnsen

Wellington iwi are hopeful a new housing partnership with the Hutt City Council will get more Māori in the city owning homes.

Whānau who suffer from a rare genetic mutation that leads to stomach cancer have said new international guidelines making it easier for Māori to get tested will save hundreds of lives.

Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa descendants are overjoyed they can do up their wharenui, while also attracting their rangatahi back to their marae, with more than $1.5 million from the Provincial Growth…

Ngāpuhi hapū in a small Bay of Islands town are gearing up to occupy a public reserve to stop a neighbouring boatyard owner from using it.

Hapū of Ngāpuhi preparing their claims for Treaty of Waitangi settlements will soon be able to access upfront funding from the government, the minister for treaty negotiations has said.

Social workers on the frontline trying to prevent children being taken into state care have told the Waitangi Tribunal of their frustrations and anguish when working with Oranga Tamariki social…

Parts of the Oranga Tamariki Act still undermine the role of whānau, hapū and iwi in the protection of tamariki, the Waitangi Tribunal has been told.

After decades of successive Waitangi Tribunal reports highlighting the failings of the Resource Management Act, a review panel has suggested strengthening the Te Tiriti clause.

National Party MPs have stopped singing from the same song sheet on whether Māori should be allowed to switch electoral rolls at any time.

Most whānau Māori going through the Family Court feel ignored by judges and are left to navigate a confusing system without support, a new report has found.

Landlords denying Māori rental properties is such a prolific problem that Māori with good incomes are having to reach out to social services, an iwi social housing provider says.

Māori trying to switch electoral rolls ahead of the election are frustrated they will not be able to do so until 2024, and are left with poor candidate choices in their current electorate as a result.

Over 90 percent of the health and social services that work with the South Island Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency have agreed to pay their staff a living wage.

A board game tracing the journey of a waka navigator to Aotearoa is among the iwi specific reo Māori resources the government is pushing for more of in schools.

A kuia who was attacked while working at a BP station in Christchurch still finds it hard to leave the safety of her house, two months after the violent incident.

Mobile clinics have helped drive high Covid-19 testing rates for Māori, and Māori health providers want them to become a regular part of primary health care practice.

Police figures have debunked claims made by the former police commissioner that there is no racial bias when it comes to deciding whether a suspect should be charged. Audio

The appeal of the now deceased convicted paedophile Peter Ellis should be reopened, because the mana of a person remains after their death, the Supreme Court has heard.

Māori academics are questioning how a government-funded research body selected five projects that met with its goal of promoting Māori knowledge, yet none of them are led by tangata whenua.

A justice advocate and barrister has said police should never use force for minor crimes, in light of a video of four police officers holding down a young man who was caught tagging.

Oranga Tamariki has apologised to a mother who was prevented by the agency from seeing her son during lockdown level four.

The direct descendant of the hapū who lived at Kirikiriroa Pā has called for a dual name for Hamilton. Audio

A flight attendant who had contact with the two women who tested positive for Covid-19 has returned a negative test.

A huge increase in demand on Whānau Ora post-covid would prevent it from playing a greater role in preventing uplifts, the minister for the organisation says.

Kaitāia families living in cowsheds and buses could be housed two years sooner with a fast-tracked consenting process, a Māori housing trust says.