RNZAF rescues men off Niue after capsize
Two men have been rescued from stormy seas off Niue after their yacht capsized yesterday.
Two men have been rescued from stormy seas off Niue after their yacht capsized yesterday.
A double-pronged aid effort is getting up a head of steam in Tuvalu this week, as more than 300 New Zealand Defence Force staff descend on the tiny nation north of Fiji and nearly 4000km from New Zealand.
Police plan to crack down on speeding motorists doing as little as 4km over the limit this weekend.
Dave Moriarty, an RNZAF pilot who won the Conspicuous Gallantry Medal for bravery over Normandy in 1944, passed away on Anzac Day.
John Key spent half an hour in Wellington Hospital with the only survivor of the Anzac Day Iroquois crash on the eve of the funeral for his three colleagues.
Prince William sends his condolences to the Defence Force after the Anzac Day crash.
The Air Force crewmen killed in an Anzac Day crash were farewelled at a full military funeral in Ohakea this afternoon.
The survivor of a crash that killed three colleagues is having difficulty comprehending his fate, his uncle said.
The father of one of three Air Force crewmen killed in the Anzac Day Iroquois crash said his son "died doing the thing he loved."
About 160 Defence Force personnel will miss the military funeral for their colleagues killed in the Anzac Day helicopter crash.