As Radio Waatea reflects on the stories that shaped our whānau, our communities and our nation over the past year, one ...

Dame Naida’s journey is inseparable from the revitalisation of te reo Māori. At a time when speaking Māori was discouraged – ...

In 2025, Barber’s leadership has been marked by advocacy, community mobilisation and cultural affirmation, as Ngāti Kahungunu ...

One such voice this year has been Reuben Taipari, a community leader from the Far North who has been mobilising Māori across ...

For Māori, raising the visibility of te reo in everyday settings is a way of strengthening identity and presence in public ...

In 2025, the Government introduced policy changes that reduced statutory Treaty obligations in schools and local governance, ...

Dr Makarena Dudley’s work represents a shift from a purely Western clinical model to one rooted in te ao Māori – recognising ...

As Waatea continues its coverage through summer and into the election year, this remains one of the most important ...

A serious cyber security breach at ManageMyHealth, one of Aotearoa’s biggest online health record systems, has raised alarm ...

Hamilton police have charged a man in connection with a hit-and-run crash in central Hamilton last week, and are appealing to ...

Police figures show that the provisional road toll over the recent summer holiday period is significantly lower than in the ...

A serious crash in the South Auckland suburb of Papatoetoe overnight has claimed the life of one person, with emergency ...