Stories by Leigh-Marama McLachlan

About 100 people from Hauraki iwi were met by protesters from the Tauranga Moana iwi when they arrived to sign their collective deed of settlement this morning. Video

Most Māori nurses will miss out on pay rises won by strike action because they don't work at district health boards.

The ousted Kōhanga Reo trustee Toni Waho is "overjoyed" that the High Court has found he should not have been sacked.

A teacher in Whanganui says she was shocked when she heard another teacher tell his class that Māori were lucky the British didn't wipe them out.

A mother who had three children taken by social services has opened up about her struggles when she fell pregnant and her fear that they would take her new baby.

Social services are so complicated that Māori families are having their children uplifted because they don't know their rights, law experts suggest.

More than 500 people gathered for the tangi of the former Māori Affairs Minister, who spent time with kings, queens and leaders like Nelson Mandela, but was not too proud to peel a potato. Audio

A legal consultant has spoken out about offensive and ignorant comments from hospital staff while she was being treated for breast cancer.

A terminally ill woman is calling for greater access to Māori healing methods saying they've helped to keep her alive for years longer than doctors expected.

A kura kaupapa in Rotorua is sick of being "fobbed off" by the Ministry of Education, which will not fund it for teaching its senior students, the principal says.

Former Immigration Minister Tuariki Delamere says a woman who works at a marae has been unfairly denied a work visa, because the immigration officer is anti-Māori and racist.

Kura kaupapa leaders are frustrated that new funding to lift Māori achievement will be mainly spent on mainstream teachers.

The Family Court should not be dealing with the care and protection of Māori children, Māori lawyers and academics say.

A nationwide rollout of baby sleeping pods should not exclude the woven-flax wahakura style, a Māori health specialist says.

The healing powers of Mt Taranaki are being summoned by a community keen to help young people combat mental health issues.

The demand for land in Auckland is putting pressure on one of the city's oldest marae, which is desperate to find space to bury its dead.

Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei is fighting for another chance to stop Crown land being offered to neighbouring tribe Ngāti Paoa.

A new exhibition aims to dispel stereotyped portrayals of Māori women in 19th century art as passive and one dimensional.

Māori and Pacific Island actors are taking centre stage at an arts festival kicking off in Wellington today.

The government will help pay for young Māori to get their driver licences in a bid to get them into work and keep them out of jail. Audio

A grandmother who cares for three children says she could be living in a car or under a bridge if it wasn't for emergency housing in Lower Hutt.

Wellington iwi leader Sir Ngātata Love was suffering from dementia when he was convicted and jailed for obtaining property by deception, a court has been told.

The son of a kōhanga reo matriarch tried to blackmail the Kōhanga Reo National Trust for $800,000, the High Court in Wellington heard today.

The Kōhanga Reo National Trust is defending its decision to dismiss a trustee whose actions prompted the Serious Fraud Office to investigate the trust's commerical arm.