A growing group of Whanganui yoga enthusiasts have gathered at Pākaitore Moutoa gardens for 10 Days of Summer Yoga by the Awa over the festive season.

The three-day Awa Run beside the Whanganui River has raised more than $32,000. An initiative of the Young Marists group, the 104km relay run on November ...

As a special prelude to the main event, the Awa Adventure Run will be hosting a trail running event for school students on Friday, September 27, with the support of Sport Whanganui.

This river in New Zealand is a legal person. How will it use its voice? Soon, the government will grant a mountain legal personhood as well. Here's how it happened, and what it may mean.

Iwi of the Whanganui River expect a new strategy will reform resource management in the catchment. Te Heke Ngahuru ki Te Awa Tupua, which was unveiled on Friday, was released for consultation by ...

To the Maori, indigenous people who live along New Zealand’s Whanganui River, the water isn’t only sacred — it’s part of their being. The community has a saying, “Ko au te awa.

A river in New Zealand has become the first in the world to be granted the same legal rights as a person. Wellington in New Zealand passed a bill on Wednesday for the Whanganui River, which flows f… ...

Granting legal rights to New Zealand's Whanganui River catchment (Te Awa Tupua) has taken eight years of careful negotiation.

WHANGANUI, New Zealand (AP) — Whanganui Māori have a saying: Ko au te awa, ko te awa ko au: I am the river, and the river is me.

A group of Māori people known as the Whanganui Iwi have fought for their relationship with the river to be recognised by law (known to them as Te Awa Tupua), since the 1870s.

Lawmakers granted the Whanganui River the rights of legal representation on Wednesday. The vote caps over a century of struggle by the local Maori people, who see the waterway as a sacred ancestor.