Stories by Te Aniwa Hurihanganui

Former Māori Party MP Te Ururoa Flavell has resigned as the party's co-leader to take up a new position as the chief executive of Te Wānanga o Aotearoa.

After more than a century the unknown remains of 17 Māori and Moriori ancestors have returned to Aotearoa.

A Tauranga iwi is fronting a $10,000 reward for information about accusations that a prominent Māori leader abused children.

Hutt Valley Hospital and Kōkiri Marae in Lower Hutt are taking a stand to stop babies dying, with figures showing 39 percent of Māori mothers smoke during pregnancy.

The living legends of kapa haka converged in Wellington over the weekend for the 10th anniversary of the Kaumātua Kapa Haka festival.

Most students think that learning their own history, including the Treaty of Waitangi, is boring and over-done, an Auckland history teacher says.

A Wellington law firm has set an ambitious goal to have all its staff members able to speak te reo Māori to its clients.

The government has announced it intends to close Hato Petera College, the only Māori Catholic co-ed school in the country, after mounting concern around its finances, human resources and low student…

The Minister for Women says wahine Māori don't get the credit they deserve for their role in women gaining the right to vote, so she threw an event to acknowledge them.

Wellington has been gifted a new Māori name for its Civic Square, following an announcement that the council will make te reo more visible around the city.

The battle to protect New Zealand's multi million dollar mānuka honey industry from international interlopers is expected to cost $5.5 million over the next 10 years.

The creators of a new international online series want to challenge the way young indigenous women see themselves and the world around them.

The University of Otago has never seen so many Māori students studying to be doctors, new research from the NZ Medical Journal shows.

A new study has found Pacific and Māori people have worse outcomes from bowel cancer than any other ethnic group in the country. Audio

People stormed out of an emergency hui at Waipatu Marae in Hastings today in protest at plans to build an alternative track on Te Mata Peak.

A Māori woman who has had a facial moko for 10 years is backing a life coach who also has one despite being Pākehā.

The artist who did a Pākehā woman's facial moko says he is embarrassed about the racial backlash it has caused. He spoke to RNZ's Te Aniwa Hurihanganui.

Business leaders who are young, female or Māori are among the most confident and positive in the country, a survey found.

Māori wards have now been rejected in five binding referendums across the country, but one campaigner says it won't stop her fighting for the special seats. Audio

Employment minister Willie Jackson has blasted critics of the 2018 Budget who say it failed to deliver for Māori.

An agency for Whānau Ora feels "snubbed" after the government's Budget 2018 did not include any extra funding for the Māori health initiative.

Māori Television has not had an increase in production funding from Māori broadcasting funding agency, Te Māngai Paho, since 2004 and the network says it's a challenge to keep up with the competition.

Central Auckland iwi Ngāti Whātua Orākei has appeared before the Supreme Court to stop the crown from giving land believed to be within its tribal boundaries to other iwi as part of a collective…

Six months into the Labour government, Crown-Māori Relations Minister Kelvin Davis is still travelling the country working out what exactly his job is.