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.

The latest round of Middle East trouble began with an anti-tank missile, says Israel's ambassador to NZ.

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.

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.

The department in charge of workplace safety did not investigate the Anzac Day air force crash because it misunderstood the law it enforces, a government legal review has found.

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

The implications of any illegal spying for the extradition proceeding against Mr Dotcom will depend on what information the GCSB actually obtained, writes Mai Chen

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.