Stories by Te Aniwa Hurihanganui

Forty-five years after the Māori Language Petition, New Zealand still has a long way to go, a former activist group member says.

Young Māori graphic designers are telling stories of the past in new ways, using in card games, comic books and gaming apps.

Māori language week starts today with a parade through the central streets of Wellington.

Grassroots women players are urging New Zealand Rugby to make their sport professional and help keep them in the game. Audio

More than 600 people have committed to speaking only in te reo Māori for either a full day, a week or the entire month. Audio

Plans to build special housing on land at Ihumātao - near the Auckland Airport - should be re-evaluated, the United Nations says.

Former Māori All Black Fred Graham, 88, who has just been honoured with another award for his carving, has some advice for emerging artists.

The death of a 23-year-old worker, who was the second in his family to die, makes this year the deadliest since 2013.

Rangatahi from around the country are pitching their big business ideas to a panel of judges in an effort to boost Māori enterprise.

A study has found the Quitline smoking service is having three times greater health benefits for Māori than non-Māori.

A school principal who filled out a bank withdrawal slip in te reo Māori was refused service at a bank in Whakatāne.

More than 100 young people have spoken to researchers about their hopes and fears, casting new light on the support they need. Audio

Popular tourism destination Rotorua hopes to attract even more international interest by becoming officially bilingual.

Women who may want to breastfeed are being forced to quickly return to work to keep their families afloat, a mother and a researcher say. Audio

A bill to give whare wānanga Māori the right to call themselves universities has met fierce opposition from the country's existing institutions. Audio

Young performers at the festival are like taonga and the organisers are determined to see them shine at a national level.

A new study has found positive health benefits for people over 60 years old who use poi.

A collective of whānau ora services are achieving better outcomes for Māori by working together.

The Department of Corrections has launched a new haka in a push to get more Māori working in prisons.

A Māori eel expert has taken matters into his own hands to save populations in New Zealand.

Auckland Grammar, one of New Zealand's leading secondary schools, has hired its first ever teacher of te reo Māori.

An emergency housing development is being built at Kokohinau Marae in the Bay of Plenty to house families displaced by the Edgecumbe floods.

Members of the Hato Petera College community are angry the Catholic Diocese of Auckland has allowed their boarding hostel to be occupied by the homeless.

Officials have called in William Waiirua to get young Māori voters to the polls in three months' time.

A Catholic Māori high school would not be facing closure if a Crown land grant had been used as it was intended, the Waitangi Tribunal has been told.