Stories by John Boynton

Māori language experts Sir Tīmoti Kāretu and Wharehuia Milroy have released a book for the 'serious' te reo learner.

From tomorrow, thousands of Aucklanders who use the city's train services will now be able to hear te reo Māori on their journeys.

Cabinet has been delayed for a few hours today so government ministers can attend the tangihanga of former Minister of Māori Affairs Koro Wētere who died on Saturday morning.

Māori Development Minister Nanaia Mahuta has launched a series of free business workshops to boost Māori business and entrepreneurship.

Hundreds of people gathered today to farewell a Rotorua woman who led a cervical cancer campaign on social media.

The development of culturally appropriate food practices for elderly Māori could lead to less hospitalisations and lower mortality rates, a new research suggests.

A Māori media industry group is being launched in Wellington tonight to ensure Māori media keeps pace with a changing world.

A west Auckland Māori urban authority says the government needs to take control of the soaring cost of after-hours medical care.

A Waikato psychologist says Māori face active resistance to their very presence in the psychology profession.

A Māori village dating back to the 14th century has been unearthed in an archaelogical dig at a Gisborne port.

A Māori farm manager on the East Coast says Mycoplasma bovis could devastate the local economy, which is still coming to grips with the threat of myrtle rust.

Auckland iwi Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei held a dawn ceremony this morning to mark the 40 years since it was evicted from Bastion Point, or Takaparawhau. Audio

Tomorrow marks 40 years since Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei was forcibly evicted from Takaparawhau or Bastion Point in Auckland.

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

An exhibition showcasing the images of evictions that took place at Takaparawhau or Bastion Point has been launched at the Auckland Museum.

A fund of $37 million has been set up in Budget 2018 to provide funding for Māori housing, land reform and youth employment training.

People in desperate need of housing are suffering because the government-run Māori Housing Network isn't working properly, a Far North housing provider says.

The future of the Kīngitanga has been a central theme of the 160th anniversary of the Māori King movement in Ngaruawahia held this weekend.

Kiwi families who have moved back to New Zealand after living in Australia are struggling with high living costs and low wages that could push them back across the Tasman.

A project that gives primary school children disposable cameras so they can shoot the world as they see it is being rolled out around the country.

A bill which will entrench Māori electorate seats in Parliament has been selected from the members' bill ballot today.

Proponents of Māori wards marched through Whakatane today, demanding adequate indigenous representation at local council level.

A voice artist for advertising agency NZME has refused to voice a client's script after they requested that the place name, Waimate, be pronounced the 'white way'.

A blood test which monitors cancer in the bloodstream is set to be trialled on Māori cancer patients.

Auckland iwi are keen to develop their own housing strategy for Māori living in Auckland says a Māori housing leader.