A pōwhiri unlike anything seen in Taranaki before marked the start of the biggest kapa haka competition in the world. The ...

The biennial Te Matatini festival has registered its highest number of teams on record, with 55 groups set to take the stage ...

Te Matatini officially got underway in New Plymouth on Monday with an emotional pōwhiri from the Taranaki hau kāinga, ...

she said it “acknowledges the special relationship between the Indigenous people of Taranaki and the Maunga.” The mountain’s legal personality Te Kāhui Tupua, while technically nonhuman ...

By Kristine Sabillo New Zealand has formally granted a mountain legal personhood for the first time, recognizing not only its ...

Te Matatini - the national kapa haka championships - kick off in New Plymouth tomorrow, the first time the event has been ...

Te Matatini 2025 will be held at the Bowl of Brooklands in Pukekura Park. Given the unprecedented number of competing teams ...

It’s one of the biggest events on the calendar for te ao Māori and Te Matatini is back this year, bringing the best of haka ...

Taranaki locals say Manaakitia te Maunga is the whakataukī for Te Matatini o Te Kāhui Maunga 2025. Taranaki locals say ...

Te Arawa rohe teams competing will be Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Rangiwewehi, Te Hekenga-ā-rangi, Tūhourangi Ngāti Wāhiao, Te ...

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred ...