Tamati Kruger

The chances of hiking the Lake Waikaremoana Great Walk this summer are not great with the track likely to stay closed until at least mid January next year. It's been shut for more than a year with… Video, Audio

Cyclone Gabrielle has stopped Waikaremoana hikers in their tracks. The Great Walk is closed completely due to damage from flooding.

Te Urewera and its roads took a hammering during the recent foul… Video, Audio

Grab your hiking boots - Lake Waikaremoana will reopen to visitors next month.

Te Urewera was shut back in August when Delta arrived and the country went into level 4.

Tūhoe, the iwi and kaitiaki of… Video, Audio

Te Urewera has been closed to visitors since the move to Covid-19 alert level 4 in August, but unlike Auckland, it won't be opening back up to the public until late January.

The region is home to… Audio

Visitors to Lake Waikaremoana are being urged to look after the land as if it were their closest and dearest friend's home.

That's after the iwi who take care of the area discovered illegal… Audio

Tuhoe have signed an agreement with Oranga Tamariki which commits to putting an end to their descendents being put in state care. Under the agreement Oranga Tamariki will notify the iwi of any… Audio

Tāmati Kruger was educated at Victoria University in Wellington, where he also tutored in te reo Māori and was involved in the early days of the Te Reo Māori Society in the 1970s. He is the chief… Audio

Te Ahi Kaa visits Taneatua in the Tuhoe Valley to get a sense of how the locals have moved since the Tuhoe Raids a decade ago. Audio

Ten years ago, with new anti-terrorism powers under their belt, police swooped on the people of Tūhoe in what has come to be known as the Urewera Raids. They set up two unlawful road blocks in Ruatoki… Audio

Jim Bolger and Tamati Kruger talk with Wena Harawira about Tuhoe and Parihaka treaty settlements, truth and reconciliation, and how their life experience has affected the discharge of their public… Audio