Whanganui

Ten million dollars of funding for conservation projects in Taranaki is also fostering hapū and whānau, say project leaders.

Taranaki Regional Council has rejected iwi calls for only Māori to have a say when considering Māori wards.

An iwi-owned research institute has received $5m in health research funding for a programme to drive better health outcomes for Māori.

Māori landowners are being called to a whenua Māori conference in Whanganui next month to identify and support land development and economic opportunities.

The first of many rural vaccination clinics planned by the MidCentral District Health Board will be held in Eketāhuna today.

Our guest this week is Stuart Weston, chief executive of the kiwifruit grower and packhouse operator Apata. The company is on the hunt for land around Whanganui.

Whanganui looks set to become the next developing kiwifruit region.

Kaiwahaiki Pā sits on the lower reaches of the Whanganui, just as the river breaks from the towering bush-clad valley and the deep dark water ambles towards the sea.

Covid-19 vaccinations for entire communities in rural Whanganui have begun.

Whanganui school students will be the first in the country to be vaccinated at school from the beginning of the next school term.

Hapū and iwi of the Whanganui region will each have a curator-in-residence under a concept being explored by the Whanganui Regional Museum.

A "surge" of people are lining up for Covid-19 vaccinations across the Whanganui, Ruapehu and Rangitīkei districts as vaccination teams prepare to ramp up the rollout with the expected arrival of one…

Whanganui Regional Museum is searching for its first Māori curator.

Stronger recognition of Māori environmental views in the first draft of the new resource management law won't by itself create the change needed, a Whanganui iwi leader says.

A name change for a small township on the outskirts of Whanganui is another step closer.