Almost 60 kgs of sacred greenstone have been returned to a West Coast hapū after people tried to illegally export it overseas ...

It is a finger-long sliver of pounamu—greenstone, or jade—and as he holds it to the light, it gleams a cool gray green. He passes it to me, and I stroke its river-smoothed skin. “Our people ...

The pounamu, also known as New Zealand greenstone or jade, was intercepted by Customs during separate illegal export attempts ...

Customs has today returned close to 60 kilograms of pounamu seized at the border to its rightful guardians, Poutini Ngāi Tahu (West Coast hapū), in a ...

"Pounamu is part of who we are as Poutini Ngāi Tahu", Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Waewae's chair says of the emotional ceremony ...

Made from an 80/20 wool blend, the carpets combine comfort and durability, ideal for high foot traffic areas in public spaces ...

It was started by Māori who travelled hundreds of kilometres across mountain passes in search of precious pounamu (greenstone) and continued by the colonisers who “discovered” and tamed this ...

A women-only river cruise leans into luxeWomen-only travel groups are proliferating, and the recently announced river cruise from Uniworld caught my attention. Gen Z is at the forefront of the all ...

The seventh annual Pounamu Country Music Awards takes place this weekend at the Cosmopolitan Club in Levin. Pictured here are guests at the 2022 awards in the Levin RSA building. A weekend of toe ...

Almost 60kg of sacred greenstone has been returned to a West Coast hapū after people tried to illegally export it overseas.

The pounamu, also known as New Zealand greenstone or jade, was intercepted by Customs during separate illegal export attempts, and returned to Poutini Ngāi Tahu as part of an ongoing joint ...