Mākereti Papakura died just weeks before she was due to present her thesis on the Arawa iwi tribe. A university has awarded a posthumous degree to its first female student from an indigenous community ...

The University of Oxford is to award a posthumous degree to a Maori princess who died almost 100 years ago. Makereti Papakura, who was born Margaret Pattison Thom in 1873 in New Zealand, enrolled at ...

Converting opportunities tops Papakura City's to do list against Manurewa at War Memorial Park in Manurewa on Saturday. Papakura, along with Franklin and Mangere, are one of three teams facing ...

Plumes of black smoke can be seen in Papakura as a fire takes hold of a scrap metal yard. Video / Hayden McCallum/ Stevie Marino / Supplied A fire that ravaged a scrap metal yard in Papakura earlier ...

Papakura - As New Zealand holds one of the highest rates of family violence in the world, with an act of family violence reported every four minutes to the police, community workers are in urgent need ...

A once-famous geyser in Te Whakarewarewa Valley, dormant since 1979, literally burst into life last week, erupting continuously for around 36 hours and shooting water up to four metres in the air. And ...

The fire at the metal recycling plant in the Auckland suburb of Papakura has been extinguished. It started on Wednesday afternoon, thick, black smoke billowing from the fire causing an emergency ...