A new program is tackling a sober reality for NZ’s Maori, who make up 15% of the country’s population but half of those behind bars ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A New Zealand life coach has been taken to task over her controversial face tattoo, which she has been accused of using to help ...

AUCKLAND -- The 2026 Matariki multicultural festival was held in Auckland, the largest city of New Zealand, on Saturday evening to mark the Maori New Year.

Thousands of Maori are leaving New Zealand for Australia each year, enticed by higher wages and greater opportunity. But with limited access to benefits and an over-representation in low-skilled ...

Facial tattoos have been a part of Maori culture for centuries, a sacred marker of the wearer's genealogy and heritage. But one woman's striking chin design - or moko - has generated huge debate in ...

According to Maori myths and legends, a demigod named Maui was fishing with his brothers from a canoe – which is now known as the South Island – when he hooked a giant catch: the massive piece of land ...

For decades, historians and scientists believed Antarctica was first discovered by Europeans and Americans. But according to a new study, it may have been New Zealand’s indigenous Maori people who ...

The male and female ancestors of today's Maori people of New Zealand originated from different parts of the world, molecular biologists have said. Their claims, made by Masters student Adele Whyte, ...

For more than 200 years, history books have attributed the discovery of Antarctica in the early 1800s to the global powers at the time. The first confirmed sighting of mainland Antarctica was by a ...

The co-leader of New Zealand's Maori Party, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, says the country's new COVID-19 strategy amounts to a "death warrant" for Indigenous communities. Earlier in October, the country ...