The elite air force aerobatics team the Red Checkers has been grounded in the wake of yesterday's fatal plane crash.

The Air Force pilot who died in a plane crash near Ohakea Air Base today was a new father, a tearful Air Force official has revealed.

Unitec training first set up for Maori and Pasifika.

The US will not ask New Zealand to send more troops to Afghanistan as part of Barack Obama's final surge, its new ambassador to Wellington says.

Sometimes, out of the blue, I'll ask myself "How did I, a New Zealander as true as they come, end up in the United States Army?"