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When Fa’anānā Efeso Collins gave his maiden speech last week, it was more special than he could possibly have imagined. It wasn’t actually his first speech...

I was 16 years old when I first met Efeso Collins. It was 2003 and a group of my classmates were picked to go to a camp about helping to inspire Pasifika...

The wealthiest schools get over a million dollars in parent donations - much more than schools signed up to a new government scheme.

By Farah Hancock of RNZ Government funding replaced parent donations for almost all but the wealthiest schools three years ago. It seems to have made little...

Pope Francis has appointed Reverend Father Reynaldo Bunyi Getalado, M.S.P., as the new coadjutor bishop of Cook Islands. Fr. Getalado is a Filipino priest who has served in various locations throughout his career, including Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and Tuvalu. Melina Etches reports.

A South Auckland primary school and its community are in shock after their much-loved principal and leader died in her sleep. Paeariki Mataroa-Johnson, 52,...

A prominent Pacific activist says an exhibition chronicling the Waitangi protest movements from the late 70s to mid-80s is timely given the issues facing the...

An Uber driver has described the desperate attempts of passing motorists to save the life of a young man fatally injured when he came off an electric scooter...

One person has died following a single-vehicle crash in South Auckland’s Ōtara this evening. A police spokesperson confirmed they attended the crash on...

A South Auckland-based funeral director is urging Pasifika families to think ahead about saving for funerals; rather than finding themselves burdened with...