Mānawatia a Matariki Join Stacey Morrison and Mātai Smith from Kā Papa Toitoi (Treble Cone, Wānaka) for live coverage of the festivities as Aotearoa celebrates the Matariki public holiday.

Unlike Easter and Christmas, Matariki is a uniquely New Zealand celebration, and gives us a genuine, traditional connection to food and the harvests that lead up to it. It’s only natural to ...

More relevant to 21st century New Zealanders is the Maori celebration of Matariki, the Maori word for the Pleiades star cluster, which signalled the new year. According to the government website ...

The mayor said racist commentary on social media was nothing new, but the issue came to a head with a post inviting community groups to apply for funding for Matariki events. Tepania said that ...

The cost of abiding by council regulations has forced the organisers of Arrowtown's Matariki celebrations to hand the event back to Arrowtown Preschool Mountain Scene's revealed plans for a funicular ...

You've been a champion in establishing Matariki as a celebration recognised by all New Zealanders. Can you share your journey with that? Did it begin at Massey or is it a lifelong passion that has ...