The internet and mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets could be the difference for the survival of Te Reo Maori, says a senior Maori academic.

Maori language stalwart Dame Iritana Tawhiwhirangi has been named as one of three finalists for the Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year awards.

An urgent audit has been ordered by the government into the spending of state money intended to help Kiwi kids learn te reo Maori.

The Kohanga Reo National Trust has been summoned to the Beehive tonight to discuss allegations of the misuse of funding.

Prime Minister John Key has warned that any state-funded organisation found to be misspending taxpayer money will have "the book thrown at them.''

There are allegations of financial mismanagement at the top of a Government-funded organisation whose objective is to help children learn Te Reo.

An author of a popular Maori children's book series cannot enter a national library award because she is Pakeha.

Look up "policeman" in an online Maori dictionary and you used to find a suggestion that police carrying warrants should be "kicked in the backside" and thrown out.

With Maori Language week in full swing, tech giant Google is calling for Te Reo enthusiasts to check out the service's language translation tool.

Kahurangi Maxwell carries a dictionary wherever she goes - the result of having a curious toddler and a decision to speak only te reo to her daughter.

The Minister of Maori Affairs, Dr Pita Sharples, is calling for more iwi investment in te reo revitalisation and a wider acceptance from Maori that the language still stands in a precarious position.

Your latest play Intimacies is about how technology is warping our lives and relationships - how is it affecting you?

The kids in Room 19 at Takapuna Normal Intermediate School seem riveted to their chairs as the woman at the front of the class belts out a song that makes the steel rafters ring.

The leader of Maori Development Ministry Te Puni Kokiri says new official government targets, such as increasing the proportion of te reo speakers, is achievable.

Te Ika a Maui and Te Waipounamu are not names that trip off the tongue for most. But that is no reason to prevent them following the example set by Aoraki/Mt Cook and Taranaki/Mt Egmont.

Peter Jackson is said to be enthusiastic about monitoring off-set conditions for animals used in film productions, writes John Drinnan.

It's a sobering experience to be in a room where no one is speaking your native language.

It's not the education system that is at fault, but the economic and social systems which, if they were doing their job, would be identifying and helping those who start life on the back foot.

A group of Tainui women are spearheading a revival of the art of the moko.

For Talking Heads, Maitreya and Awa talked about their relationship with te reo Maori.