A guide to what is happening in Tairāwhiti this weekend and on a regular basis ...

Aotearoa’s oldest regional kapa haka competition is taking place at Houhoupiko/Showgrounds Park in Gisborne, starting on ...

Kia Hūkere te Hoe will be the biggest kapa haka event ever held in Marlborough. It returns to the district for the first time in 13 years, bringing together hundreds of kaihaka, their whānau and ...

Thousands of people gathered in Blenheim for Kia Hūkere te Hoe this week, the biggest kapa haka event ever held in ...

Thousands of people are gathered in Blenheim for Kia Hukere te Hoe, the biggest kapa haka event ever held in Marlborough. It's returned to the district for the first time in 13 years, bringing ...

When new rōpū Kōkō Tangiwai stormed to the front of the Waitaha region kapa haka competitions in 2024 they pushed the boundaries of creativity and innovation to take out the top spot and earn their ...

Former Te Pāti Māori president Che Wilson has sparked debate following a controversial haka performed at the Tainui Regional Kapa Haka competition over the weekend. The haka, directed at ACT MP ...

New translations reveal slurs that organisers and anti-racism groups say have no place on the highly esteemed Te Matatini stage.

It is 20 years since the All Blacks first performed the Kapa o Pango version of the haka. It remains a controversial iteration, with the final movement involving a motion where the players’ hands are ...

The finding stems from research undertaken at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. The research question was to investigate if performing the kapa haka is one of the contributing factors that ...