Dutch paddler Koos Wabeke says getting involved with kaupapa waka - and learning about the Māori world - has changed his life.

Festivals like the biannual Tāmaki Herenga Waka Festival in Auckland celebrate Māori culture with opportunities to sail ...

A Dutch paddler who has travelled around the world to take part in today’s Waitangi Day commemorations says getting involved with kaupapa waka – and learning about the Māori world – has ...

The bill’s architect, David Seymour, met with protests at Waitangi marae — a Māori meeting house — during speeches by ...

Mt. Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New ...

Rapper Waka Flocka Flame credits his mom for being his biggest role model Moses Robinson/Getty Waka Flocka Flame’s mom, Debra Antney, raised him in the world of hip-hop. She is a renowned ...

Māori have been writing about their experiences for two centuries. Here, the authors of a new book about that literary legacy ...

The memory of Gisborne's Kiwi Campbell will be strong throughout the Waka Ama Sprint Nationals on Lake Karāpiro this week. The Waka Ama Nationals 2025 mark the first nationals without renowned ...

This December marked the beginning of an unforgettable three-day cultural and musical extravaganza as MC Charlene hosted the highly anticipated Waka Waka Festival at Stade Sambava, Madagascar.

The origins of the waka exchange between the Netherlands and New Zealand date back to 2002 when Te Papa requested the repatriation of a mokomokai - a preserved Maori head - from Museum Volkenkunde, ...

For a band whose underlying mission was to address ideas about what this country could be, there could not have been a more apt name than Aotearoa, writes Nick Bollinger.

The Regatta began in 1896, when Mahuta was arikinui, as a way to unite the community and iwi of the Ngāruawāhia region. Te ...