Te Whānau o Waipareira is taking its Matariki celebration to the streets of Henderson.

The halls of Te Papa Tongarewa have echoed with karakia and waiata from the early hours of this morning in a rehearsal for the first official Matariki public holiday.

A Māori urban planner says lessons learned from papakainga could help with the development of other cooperative and co-housing models

An independent Māori-led research team has been awarded $1.5 million by the Ministry of Health and Health Research Council of New Zealand to track the implementation and progress of the government’s five-year Whakamaua Māori Health Action Plan.

Tomorrow morning may be your best chance to view the Matariki star cluster before cloudy conditions settle in over the weekend.

It's taken two years, but Troy Kingi has completed a te reo version of his reggae-inflected Holy Colony Burning Acres album in time for a Matariki public holiday release