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Waikaremoana iwi Ngati Ruapani has placed a rahui over the lake at the centre of Te Urewera. Kaumatua chair Tumanako Waiwai says the banapplies to all activities on the lake itself and access across all adjacent Maori land from June 25 to 29. It's in support of the hearing in the Maori Land Court at Wairoa on June 28 of application lodged by applicants representing all descendants of the original owners. Mr Waiwai says the rahui is to...

What constitutes a Good day? I measure success by how happy and satisfied people are around me. While I can't necessarily control it, I can definitely enhance or hinder someone's day with what I bring to an interaction. If the people in my life are in a good place or I can help them get there, that's a good day for...

Oxfam New Zealand celebrated entrants and volunteers with an awards night to mark the first Trailwalker staged in the Whakatane district. Trailwalker 2016 raised just short of $1million and although the weather was a challenge for many during the event, organisers and participants rated it highly. Te Kura Whare won 'Best Checkpoint'...

The Tūhoe documentary Ever the Land will screen in Venice this weekend. The acclaimed documentary about the Te Wharehou o Tuhoe (Te Kura Whare) will screen twice in the auditorium of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia on Saturday as part of the public opening of the city's famous Architecture...

A new sign has been unveiled in Te Urewera to mark the authority of Ngāi Tūhoe over the area. But according to representatives of Manawarū, Ruatāhuna's tribal body, they are only starting to realise their dream.  Te...

The government may be committing more than $20 million to ramp up pest control using 1080 in New Zealand but Te Urewera will remain free of the poison - for now.  The battle for New Zealand's native birds is set to receive a $20.7 million boost in this year's budget and the aim is to squash a predicted boom in rat and stoat populations, predicted to follow heavy forest seeding, by backing aerial 1080 operations with on-going...