My nose for news was tingling as our Air New Zealand flight touched down at Tauranga, a popular vacation area on the North Island of New Zealand. It was early November — springtime in the Southern ...

Te Arawa master carver Lyonel Grant says the iwi may have missed the chance to bring home a sacred treasure. An old Maori wharenui (meeting house) and carvings worth about $6 million are again being ...

The scanned suspended carvings of the original Tānewhirinaki wharenui that was built in the 1860s and destroyed in the Napier earthquake will now be used to create a digital twin. Internationally ...

Stunning paintings, intricately carved taonga puoro (traditional Māori musical instruments) and beautiful music are woven together in the exhibition Ngā Hau Ngākau (Breath of Mine) opening at ...

One of the few fully carved wharenui in Northland is among the stars of a new television series. The Maori-language series Whare Taonga, on the Te Reo Channel and Maori Television, is a 13-part ...