Kiingi Tuheitia

The event is a direct response to the late Kiingi Tuheitia, who in January said “Let the four winds speak”, and “Ngāi Tahu, we must come to you.”

She first entered politics in 2005 and has spent her political career striving to achieve better outcomes for her people.

The residents of the Tonga island group of Vava’u are promising to honour the late Māori King’s call for whales to be given personhood.

A unique first took shape as the largest group of Māori broadcasters to ever work together collaborated with iwi to cover Kiingi Tuheitia's tangihanga and his successor's accession

Taatahi Ora, Waikura, Taakitumu, and Te Tiimatanga were the four waka taking the late king to his final resting place at Taupiri Maunga.

Watch the new ariki, Nga Wai Hono i te Po Paki, ascend the throne to become the new Māori kuini.

The decision, affirmed by iwi leaders, makes Ngawai Hono I Te Po the eighth in an unbroken line of succession.

After a week of tangihanga, today is the Rā Nehu (the burial day) and Te Whakawahinga will be at 10am on Turangawaewae marae.

Acting Prime Minister Winston Peters led the Coalition contingent arriving at Tuurangawaewae Marae.

The Far North District Council’s Māori ward decision meeting is being postponed out of respect for leader Kīngi Tūheitia’s burial in Waikato on Thursday.