It's a fisherman's tale with a hook - a couple of bone hooks that is. Greerton youth worker Rangi Ahipene has successfully caught fish with traditional Maori fish hooks made of bone.

The Maori, New Zealand’s Indigenous people, navigated to the country from Polynesia by sea, some arriving as early as the 10th century. Matau, or fishhooks, were among their tools, fashioned ...

Bridge name honours culture and history. Whangarei’s spectacular Lower Hatea River Crossing now has an official name – Te Matau a Pohe – translated as “The fishhook of Pohe” the Maori ...

A local Maori artist's designs are set to feature in New Zealand Post's Maori Art coin series released next month. The Hei Matau coin, the second in the ...