Stories by Moana Ellis

A new courthouse will be built in Whanganui with "community-led wellbeing" central to its design, Justice Minister Kris Faafoi announced today.

Māori advocates will march against Ruapehu District Council in Taumarunui in protest at what they describe as the minimising of Māori representation, participation and "an undertone" of institutional…

Whanganui River iwi leaders have performed a dawn ritual in Dubai to dedicate Aotearoa New Zealand's immersive pavilion "experience" ahead of the opening of the six-month world trade exposition.

Seven mayors, the regional council chair and seven tangata whenua representatives are setting up a working group to develop a regional climate action plan for Whanganui-Manawatū.

Ruapehu District councillors are to hold a workshop to help decide whether to open meetings with a karakia or any prayer, after a councillor walked out in protest at a karakia.

A Regional Film Office has been established in Whanganui to stimulate economic growth, support local film industry talent and potentially help grow Whanganui as a regional screen production hub.

Whanganui and Manawatū can expect more hot days and fewer frosts, less rain in the east but more and heavier rain in the west, and more floods, according to a new climate risk assessment.

The second meeting of the Horizons Regional Council's Climate Action Joint Committee this week has been hailed as a milestone in the council's response to climate change and its partnership with iwi.

Horizons Regional Council is proposing two new Māori constituencies for its local election in October next year, each with one elected member.

The national strategy of vaccinating against Covid-19 through general and mass events is not working for Māori, a Covid-19 researcher says.

A Māori wards advocate says Ruapehu District Council's refusal to lift its proposal for Māori ward seats from two to three is "another example" of why Māori turn their back on participation in local…

A collective of iwi is urging Māori to take their whānau for Covid jabs without delay.

The Ruapehu District Council is being asked to increase the number of Māori seats under its representation proposal.

The gap between Covid-19 vaccination rates for Māori and the general population in Whanganui, Ruapehu and Rangitīkei is expected to narrow as Whanganui DHB's pro-equity strategy gathers pace.

An iwi-owned research institute has received $5m in health research funding for a programme to drive better health outcomes for Māori.

Māori landowners are being called to a whenua Māori conference in Whanganui next month to identify and support land development and economic opportunities.

Covid-19 vaccinations for entire communities in rural Whanganui have begun.

Many people are living in an extreme state of stress and the mental health services sector is "overwhelmed", a new community-led strategic group for suicide prevention says.

Group of local and Crown entitities is meant to aid Whanganui region, but draws fire from iwi leader.

Hapū and iwi of the Whanganui region will each have a curator-in-residence under a concept being explored by the Whanganui Regional Museum.

A "surge" of people are lining up for Covid-19 vaccinations across the Whanganui, Ruapehu and Rangitīkei districts as vaccination teams prepare to ramp up the rollout with the expected arrival of one…

Whanganui Regional Museum is searching for its first Māori curator.

Stronger recognition of Māori environmental views in the first draft of the new resource management law won't by itself create the change needed, a Whanganui iwi leader says.

Horizons Regional Council has signed off a 10-year transport investment plan that prioritises fixing roading problems in and around Palmerston North and speeding up inter-regional road travel.

A district council is trying to solve the mystery of why hundreds of thousands of litres of drinking water is disappearing every day in a small mountain town.