Search and rescue teams are continuing to comb a section of Te Urewera National Park to find a woman and four children reported missing about 4pm yesterday. The children are aged from 4-9, with the group believed to have been visiting the area. Police launched a search and rescue operation after the group were reported overdue yesterday from a walk in the Otamatuna Ridge area, North East of Murapara. They had been dropped off just after one...

Tūhoe and a group of scientists are to reach back through the mists of time to establish whether dinosaurs roamed Te...

Patu o Aotearoa - a family and community-based health and fitness programme - is now raising heartbeats in...

Water features will ensure Waikaremoana Tribal Authority's new visitor centre is in keeping with its rainforest...

Tanatana Marae in Waimana has won the commercial/industrial architectural design section award. The award is based on Ngāti Rere's new building which cost $300,000.  This project is about incorporating traditional ideas with a contemporary twist. Marae committee representative Martin Rakuraku told Te Kāea they wanted to move with the times, “We thought we would incorporate a house to cater to two purposes; a place to mourn and...

Can a stretch of land be a person in the eyes of the law? Can a body of water? In New Zealand, they can. A former national park has been granted personhood, and a river system is expected to receive the same soon. The unusual designations, something like the legal status that corporations possess, came out of agreements between New Zealand’s government and Maori groups. The two sides have argued for years over guardianship of the...