Rangitāmiro is proud to announce that it has successfully completed its inaugural Whānau Ora procurement process and today formally notified successful providers across Region One. This is a significant milestone and reaffirms a commitment held by Rangitāmiro to honour the whakapapa of whānau ora through strengthening service networks, regional capability, reach and service coverage, ensuring and enabling whānau wellbeing.

The 2025 Marlborough Heritage Festival is underway. 

Running from today until Sunday the festival showcases the stories, people and places that have shaped Marlborough with events happening across the region. The festival was launched at Te Kahu o Waipuna this morning with an opening attended by iwi, dignitaries and members of Marlborough’s heritage community.

The hauora data stories of Iwi-Māori whānau living in Rotorua can soon be told by Te Arawa.  

Te Taura Ora o Waiariki – Te Arawa Iwi Māori Partnership Board (IMPB) and PHO, Rotorua Area Primary Health Services (RAPHS), have signed a data sharing agreement supporting Te Arawa whānau access to Māori health data and collection.  

A celebration of Waikato's public art and a powerful painting retrospective are the two new exhibitions opening this week at Te Whare Taonga o Waikato Museum and Gallery. 

The Honourable Luamanuvao Dame Winnie Laban DNZM, will be awarded an honorary doctorate by Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington at the graduation ceremonies this May.  

A striking range of portraits using mediums such as video, stop-motion puppetry, ceramics with paua inlay, and oil paintings on glass have been shortlisted for the 2025 Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award. The finalists also include works in digital animation, handcrafted earth pigments on canvas, and textiles made from linen, cotton, and glass beads.

“Te Tangi a Te Tūī”, an extraordinary Māori cirque theatre production, is set to take the stage at Sir Howard Morrison Centre, as part of a highly anticipated North Island tour.  

Codi Wehi-Ngatai (Ngāti Maniapoto), the musician and founder behind Kia Whanake, is a passionate advocate for te reo Māori and continues his mission of supporting te reo revitalisation through music. He was inspired to start Kia Whanake while teaching his daughter to kōrero Māori at home, when he noticed a critical gap in educational waiata reo Māori for Tamariki.

World Buskers Festival Director Pitsch Leiser says they are delighted to have Tukariri and Muagututi’a on board as co-creators “Savanah and Tanya bring a world of experience and knowledge that is integral to developing the uniqueness of the festival in Ōtautahi. It is the generosity and hospitality of Cantabrians and the Kai Tahu manaakitanga that creates that uniqueness and why buskers and audiences come here for the World Buskers Festival.

Te Arikinui Kuini Nga wai hono i te po will join the people of the nation as they Hiikoi to Parliament on Tuesday under the protection of Te Kahu o te Raukura, which represents peace, honour and goodwill.

Kiingi Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII has died peacefully this morning, accompanied by his wife Makau Ariki and their children Whatumoana, Korotangi, and Ngawai Hono I Te Po.

Haka Theatre show, Autaia, will platform rangatahi talent from across Tāmaki Makaurau, and this year Autaia is extending outside the Auckland region for the first time, welcoming new schools from Te Tai Tokerau, when it returns for its fourth year this August.

Ōwhata Kōhanga Rākau proudly announces the launch of a pioneering initiative aimed at paving the way for whānau to achieve home ownership in Rotorua and Te Puke.

Committed to providing an array of housing solutions, this new offering will support whānau into home ownership through its approval as a Progressive Home Ownership provider, a scheme introduced by Te Tūāpapa Kura Kāinga - Ministry of Housing and Urban Development. Ōwhata Kōhanga Rākau is now positioned to advance its objective of supporting whānau to become homeowners.

Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington's International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) is delighted to announce Tokelauan Fijian storyteller Emele Ugavule as the 2024 Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence.

The Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity (AFSE) program announces that applications are now open for its 2025 cohort. Each year, around 20 Fellows are selected from Australia, Aotearoa, and Pacific Island Nations to join this prestigious program.

Maaori kiwifruit growers were honoured to host Kiingi Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII at the launch of the 2024 export season in Hawai’i today.

Kiingitanga spokesman Ngira Simmonds says the event was a proud moment for Maaori exporters and indigenous-based trade.

e Kāhui Raraunga and Stats NZ have taken an historic step in Aotearoa New Zealand's data landscape today with the release of 2023 Census Māori descent data on the iwi-designed and operated platform, Te Whata.

This is the first time census data has been released on a non-government-owned platform as part of a census release.

The milestone has been made possible under the Mana Ōrite Relationship agreement between the Data Iwi Leaders Group and Stats NZ.

Kiingi Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherewhero VII will attend this weekend’s Hui Taumata, hosted by Ngaati Kahungunu at Omāhu Marae in Heretaunga.

Kiingitanga Spokesman Ngira Simmonds says Te Kiingi will carry the mauri (lifeforce) from te Hui-aa-Motu in Turangawaewae earlier this year, where more than 10,000 people united to discuss issues of nationhood and self-determination.

The 2024 theme for Samoa Language Week is 'Tautua i le alofa, manuia le lumana’i – Serve in love for a blessed future'.

This theme derives from the overarching Language Week Series theme for 2024, 'Sustainability'.

What does the phrase ‘Tautua i le alofa’ mean? The concept of tautua focuses on the phrase – “Serve in love”. Love is the driving force of service. No matter what service looks like or who is doing it, service is accomplished through the power of love.

On June 27th, M9 will be celebrating its two year anniversary by gathering nine influential Māori voices for its seventh instalment: Ngāti Pae Pāpori - Māori Influencing Social Media.