Ex-tropical cyclone Tam continues to hit New Zealand. Frustration over alert systems in Auckland. Russia announces unexpected Easter truce with Ukraine. Video / NZ Herald Ngā Mokopuna (formerly ...

Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora said the Plunket programme ... “Plunket sees 45,000 babies each year, and within that we see nearly 60% Maori and 77% of Pacific, so we do definitely have a ...

As the deadline approaches for Te Pāti Māori MPs to appear before the Privileges Committee, the place of tikanga in our ...

A Whangārei hapū is celebrating the end of a controversial development on land they consider tapu, or sacred after the developer dropped their appeal.

Imagine a world where ancient wisdom breathes new life into fragile ecosystems, where centuries-old stories hold the secret ...

In an update provided by manager Aaron Boone, via Greg Joyce of the New York Post, Stroman is still “feeling some things” in his knee, hinting that his stay on the sidelines will be beyond the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

There were 17,028 Maori babies born in 2024. According to an official information response from the Ministry of Social Development, 5,997 were dependent on welfare by the end of the year. That’s 35.2 ...

New Zealand is slated to receive its first code of practice for regulating biometric data by mid-2025. Members of the Māori, however, say that the upcoming regulation falls short of its expectations ...

The stand-off between Te Pāti Māori and Parliament's Privileges Committee is coming to a head with a public hearing on Wednesday. It's been billed as the last chance for co-leaders Rawiri Waititi and ...

New Zealand. The fire was reported as starting in a nearby pine forest. (Photo by Joe Allison/Getty Images) Wildfire risk is a growing issue. Large-scale forests, especially plantations of pine or ...

The MPs argued haka is a critical part of the identity of Aotearoa, and since the performance of Ka Mate in 1888 by Joseph Warbrick's Māori All Blacks team, had become synonymous with New Zealand's ...