Rock superstar Serj Tankian may call NZ home - but today he'll be in Armenia, commemorating the lives of his ancestors lost to genocide 100 years ago.

World War I medals dug out of an Auckland garden decades ago have found their way back to their original recipient's family - just in time for Anzac Day.

On the 100th anniversary, we are probably closer than ever to recognising the real significance of Anzac Day.

If the rehearsal is anything to go by, the real thing will be powerful, stirring and emotional.

A former National MP and author of The Good Lobbyist's Guide, has been getting in ministers' ears, urging them to stop subsidising the loss-making operations of KiwiRail.

BJ Clark wanders the carefully-manicured rows of Gallipoli gravestones with the Youth Ambassadors.

A virtual world recreating the 1915 Gallipoli landscape in the popular game of Minecraft will be downloadable from Anzac Day.

A behind the scenes look at the making of Gallipoli in Minecraft, a virtual world recreating the 1915 Gallipoli landscape. The Gallipoli in Minecraft exhibition at Auckland Museum opens tomorrow and runs until October 11.

They chatted and shared stories of their connections to the Anzacs as they walked in queues along the windswept roads of the peninsula. And then, they stopped.

The landscape of war is being recreated in an online game of Minecraft that will appeal to all ages. The Gallipoli in Minecraft exhibition at Auckland Museum opens tomorrow and runs until October 11. A virtual world recreating the 1915 Gallipoli landscape in the popular game of Minecraft will be downloadable from Anzac Day.

Building the biggest Poppy in the world to honor WW100 and those who protected our freedom and democracy. The Giant Poppy will consist of 59,000 discs.

Two things immediately strike you when standing at Anzac Cove: the tiny beach, and just how daunting and steep the rugged terrain is that lies ahead.

Canakkale, a bustling, tourist-student town the size of Dunedin, has already filled up with New Zealand and Australian officials, dignitaries, and local visitors for Anzac Day.

Good Friday, April 2, 1915. Private Claude Carrell ate his breakfast in bed and pulled out his diary.

A third Melbourne teenager has been charged in relation to the alleged plot to attack Anzac Day events, which reportedly envisaged running over a police officer, knifing him to death and then using....

An art exhibition with an Anzac twist is paying tribute to the Cook Islands soldiers who served in World War I.

Author and historian Dr Monty Soutar specialises in Maori military history in both World Wars and is involved in Maori TV’s Anzac Day coverage. He talks war, racism and the East Coast.

An online family history database is opening its military records tomorrow as an Anzac gesture.

Prime Minister John Key says the SIS has talked would-be jihadists in New Zealand out of joining Isis after their parents approached authorities.

When Richard Stowers published his first book about the Gallipoli campaign in 2005 he knew he had more to say.

The sons of a fallen Kiwi and Australian soldiers laid wreaths down at the new Australian Anzac memorial in Wellington.

Vandals have written "no tears for dead soldiers" on a Wollongong war memorial just a day before an annual Anzac ceremony.