Te Aniwa Hurihanganui

The Māori head of the Nurses Organisation has revealed she's been the victim of incessant, targeted online abuse - including death threats -  for the past year and a half. 

It comes after a New… Audio

A New Plymouth nurse who made several public posts on social media calling Māori nurses "fat and lazy" has had her registration cancelled for the next two years.

A disciplinary tribunal considered… Audio

The registration of New Plymouth nurse, Deborah Kathryn Hugill - more commonly known as Debbie Newport - has been cancelled for the next two years after posts she made on social media were found to be… Audio

MPs new and old, from across the political divide, have arrived in the capital today to a transformed Parliament, one of the most diverse the country has ever seen.

Among them was a tidal wave of new… Video, Audio

The Labour Party has welcomed a whopping 22 new MPs to Parliament today.

At the Beehive's entrance this morning, they were greeted by their colleagues and a swarm of media.

RNZ's reporter, Te Aniwa… Audio

A legal challenge to Otago University's medical school admissions process - which prioritises Māori and other groups in order to create a more diverse health workforce - has now been dropped.

The… Audio

The Māori Party is throwing its weight behind their Waiariki candiate Rawiri Waititi, who is nipping at the heels of Labour incumbent Tamati Coffey. 

It will be a three-way race in the electorate… Audio

Labour's Māori caucus denies its worried about losing the Waiariki seat, despite flocking to the electorate yesterday to convince voters to back their candidate Tamati Coffey less than two weeks out… Audio

New polling in the Waiariki Māori electorate shows the Labour Party's Tamati Coffey is leading the Māori Party candidate, Rawiri Waititi,

The Maori Television Curia Market Research poll shows Coffey… Audio

The activists behind the historic 1972 Māori Language Petition have not given up on their dream to have te reo taught in all schools. 

Jim Bolger entered parliament that same year.

He doesn't recall… Audio

The women's semi-finals are underway at the US tennis Open in New York, with fourth seed Naomi Osaka of Japan taking on American Jennifer Brady on centre court.

The winner will take on a former world… Audio

A prominent medical organisation has called a proposal by Otago University to impose caps on special medical school admissions for Māori and Pasifika "deeply disturbing".

The Royal Australasian… Audio

The son of a soldier in the Maori Battalion says he was blown away to learn his father never received his war medals. A list of 134 soldiers from the Battalion's C company has been published online… Audio

Medical students at Otago say the university's vice chancellor Harlene Hayne has refused to meet with them over proposed changes to medical school admissions through the Māori Entry Pathway. A… Audio

People in Tokoroa with Covid-like symptoms are being encouraged to get tested, after a doctor there was among the two positive cases confirmed yesterday.

Health officials have so far been unable to… Audio

Firefighters are continuing to battle a large fire in the South Island's Mackenzie District.

The fire is believed to have started yesterday morning, near Lake Pukaki.

RNZ's Anan Zaki has been… Audio

Aucklanders returning to the city arrived to a new normal today - with vast numbers of people donning masks and face coverings.

They're now compulsory on public transport, while schools and… Audio

The University of Otago has confirmed it could consider imposing caps on the number of Māori admissions to its medical school through a designated entry pathway, but has refused to give any more… Audio

Descendants of the original land owners at Kapiti Airport and the local mayor are calling on the government to return it to mana whenua. The site was taken under the Public Works Act in 1939 to build… Audio