Army bosses have been told to go ahead with a restructuring which will boost the role of territorials, even though the law required to make the change has not been passed. The instruction has brought a warning from Labour.

New Zealand soldiers overseas this Christmas have been sending their love to their families and friends back home in New Zealand.

Two wounded soldiers were put at risk by Defence bosses who decided to fly them back to New Zealand with their killed comrade.

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 senior Taliban leader thought to be behind a roadside bombing in which three New Zealand soldiers died has reportedly been killed by coalition forces.

When Australia's latest Victoria Cross recipient Corporal Daniel Keighran first told his wife Katherine why he was receiving it, she wasn't impressed.

A key safety change which would help the air force find its staff after crashes has yet to happen even though it was recommended after a fatal accident.

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.

The RNZAF will not be prosecuted by the CAA after it put the lives of hundreds of people at risk by illegally shipping chemical oxygen generators on a passenger flight.