Matariki, Aotearoa's newest public holiday, is marked this Friday. Here's what you need to know about what's open and what's ...

Tim McKinnel says he was initially reluctant to look into the case, but then decided it warranted closer examination.

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The protest drew global headlines and provoked months of debate over the place of Māori culture in Parliament.

Parliament and the courts are different branches of our democracy. On Thursday, during the debate on MP punishments, it felt like they overlapped.

Nearly five months after Travis Langford was last seen, the search is still underway. Langford disappeared while travelling from Wellington to Waikato on 17 January this year. Police said his vehicle ...

I think our collective past certainly ties into Waitangi Day via governmental connections but how and why is an on-going debate. How then do I celebrate Waitangi Day? In what way does it mean ...

Waitangi Day will be marked in South Canterbury with activities at Arowhenua Marae in Temuka. A day of “fun and games to celebrate the diversity of Waitangi Day” will be held, organisers say.

Matariki celebrates the Māori New Year and is a time for people to gather, honour the dead, celebrate the present and make plans for the future. This year, the public holiday falls on June 20. It ...

It was announced by the then Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, and it was the first new public holiday since Waitangi Day in 1974. Matariki is the heliacal rising of the Pleiades star cluster ...

Denise Snodell Special to The Star My dad did it again. He sent a sign, this time on his birthday. It was a day I made extra busy, which in retrospect could have been subconscious planning.