"This award is not only mine. It belongs to the family. It belongs to the village. And my colleagues have been amazing too.

The Honourable Sir Mark Cooper (Ngāti Mahanga, Waikato-Tainui). Former President of the Court of Appeal from April 2022 to ...

Wickliffe, former Labour Minister Dover Samuels, and waka stalwart Joe Conrad are among the Māori on this year's list.

Wright - who received the Ernst and Young ‘Master’ Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2015 - said he planned to retire after ...

Education Minister Erica Stanford has congratulated the recipients of the King’s Birthday 2025 Honours List who have been recognised for their services to education. “I’d like to congratulate the ...

Ms Ronnie Thompson has contributed to basketball in New Zealand for 40 years, as a player, coach and administrator. Ms ...

A royal honour for groundbreaking journalist Suzanne McFadden, founder of LockerRoom who first brought lucky America's Cup ...

The founder of plastics storage container business Sistema Plastics Brendan Lindsay has been appointed a knight companion of ...

Comedian Dai Henwood has been honoured as an officer of the New Zealand order of merit.  It comes as he's battling stage-four bowel cancer.  He t ...

A Tekapo couple who have spent the past 50 years helping to track asteroids that could pose a threat to Earth have been jointly awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit.