Te Matatini - the national kapa haka championships - kick off in New Plymouth tomorrow, the first time the event has been held in Taranaki for more than 30 years.

Kahui said the law is “a real testament to Māori in Taranaki who resisted and struggled against the wrongdoing of the Crown for well over [a] hundred years.” Besides providing a “blueprint ...

Photo: RNZ / Robin Martin Land Information New Zealand was a no-show at a meeting to consider the future of a Taranaki daycare centre the government agency last week evicted from a building it had ...

The pōwhiri at Te Matatini 2025 was an emotional one. Photo / Te Matatini A pōwhiri unlike anything seen in Taranaki before marked the start of the biggest kapa haka competition in the world.

Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer says it has been 31 years since the rohe last hosted Te Matatini, and the effort to be great hosts has been a collective one for Taranaki. “That ...

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