It was meant to be an inclusive gesture to New Zealand’s indigenous Maori community. But plans to introduce bilingual road signs featuring both the English and te reo Maori languages have sparked a ...

For the first time in New Zealand history, Maori will now be able to read the Muslim holy book, the Qur’an, in Te Reo Maori. The Ahmadiyya Muslim community has been working on the translation project ...

A Welsh man has won the waiata category in the Compose Aotearoa! national choral composition competition - for works with substantial Te Reo Maori content. Andrew Williams' waiata Miha is for an ...

Rotorua District Council director of Maori issues, Mauriora Kingi (left) with Rotorua District Library staff Robyn Skipwith, Manda Waiariki, Lois Haddon, Amanda Hemara and mayor Steve Chadwick.

It’s good to see some familiar faces here this evening, as it was a couple of months ago when most of us were gathered at the Mâori Media Awards in Rotorua. I want to congratulate Te Korimako o ...

A mainstream Rotorua school is ensuring all its teachers can speak te reo Maori in an effort to better reflect its community. Owhata School teachers will be taking te reo Maori classes this year as ...

Pages from the 1972 Māori Language Petition. Ko tēnei te Wiki o te Reo Māori – it’s Māori Language Week. It’s been 52 years since the landmark moment on September 14 1972, when Hana Te Hemara and her ...

COLUMN: At the present time, with horrific conflict turning the region known as “the Promised Land” or “the Holy Land” into something more like “Hell on Earth”, we might wish more than ever to promote ...

To international audiences, Marlon Williams’ songs are the highway stop after Roy Orbison’s Texas and Chris Isaak’s California. But the Maori musician, one of Aotearoa’s most successful musical ...

Mike McRoberts has been a familiar face and voice on TV and radio for 40 years. His career has included stints first as a sports reporter for RNZ, then TVNZ, and a long period working for Newshub, ...