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 ...

Te Pāti Māori vice-president Fallyn Flavell, a hīkoi organiser, told the Rotorua Daily Post that it was hard to say exactly ...

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