The lead pilot of the air force's fatal Anzac Day formation is being made a scapegoat for failures right up the command chain, says the father of one of the men who died in the 2010 crash.

An RNZAF officer has been charged over the fatal Iroquois crash at Pukerua Bay on Anzac Day 2010.

Fire chiefs are angry the army will start live firing again today at the scene of last week's big blaze at West Melton in Canterbury.

It'll be the last Christmas New Zealand Defence Force troops spend in Afghanistan. Our final rotation of soldiers will return home by the end of April next year.

The 78 recommendations made after an inquiry into the Anzac Day Iroquois crash are not enough to prevent another tragedy, an independent review says.

Three airmen killed in an Anzac Day helicopter crash were on a one-hour flight because it was considered too expensive to accommodate them in a hotel.

The killing of a senior Taleban warlord, blamed for the deaths of four New Zealand soldiers, has been met with shock and sadness by one grieving mother.

A "cloaking device" that makes things invisible, the effect of a depleting ozone layer on the prevailing wind and just how birds tell the time before migrating.

Veterans returning to battlegrounds in Egypt for a 70th anniversary next week have been promised business-class quality flights and silver service.

If ever refugees deserved to be welcomed to New Zealand it is the Afghans who have been acting as interpreters for our soldiers in their country.

An armed military man found dead at Linton Camp had recently separated from his partner and mother of his two children.

The family of Private Michael Ross say they are relieved the soldier's body has been found, a week after he fell into a lake near Waiouru.

Private Michael Victor Ross, 29, from Kaitaia, has not been seen since he fell overboard from an inflatable boat while returning from a training exercise in a lake.

New Zealand has been allocated 2000 of the 10,000 places available for the 2015 dawn service at Gallipoli - guess which country gets the rest?

The last batch of soldiers has left for Afghanistan, bracing themselves for attacks from insurgents desperate to win the propaganda war before NZ pulls out for good.