The New Zealand Masters Games has kicked off in Whanganui.

Search teams elated as DOC worker stumbles across missing tourist.

A Kiwi scientist has unexpectedly discovered what appears to be a huge undersea volcanic eruption near the main island of Tonga.

Emergency services were called to the incident on a North Western Motorway off ramp just after 9.30pm.

Our next military transport could be built by Kawasaki. And the aircraft which patrol our maritime borders could come off the same factory line.

Missing yachtie likely to be sailing his tiny catamaran to Australia, where he has disappeared with his 6-year-old daughter Que previously, according to an expert.

A man and his son missing at sea off Tonga since Saturday have been found safe by the NZ Defence Force.

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The New Zealand Defence Force is helping search for three fishermen who have been missing at sea off the Pacific island-nation of Kiribati since last week.

A hunter who had been missing in the Kaimanawa Ranges since Saturday evening has been found.

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More than 25 police staff remain in Kaikoura and the surrounding area offering reassurance to locals and offering their assistance.

A pumice raft spotted by a Royal New Zealand Air Force crew has pointed to a possible major undersea eruption somewhere in the Tonga-Kermadec volcanic arc.

The military will today drop in on people cut off by this week's quake.

Police are checking that people have a legitimate reason to be in quake-hit areas.

Defence Force sends hundreds of staff plus planes and ships to earthquake-affected south.

Three fishermen missing at sea for more than a week have been found alive by the RNZAF.

The Air Force has sent a plane to Kiribati in search for three fishermen.

It was a faulty switch that left an air force plane grounded in Australia and Prime Minister John Key and 80 delegates stranded en route to India.

EDITORIAL: The public have a right to ask what is going on at Whenuapai if a mission such as this one cannot be executed successfully.

Prime Minister John Key will land in New Delhi overnight to finally start his India trip after plane problems meant he had to cancel one of only three days in the country.

The breakdown of Prime Minister John Key's military plane in Australia is the latest in a series of incidents.

John Key, who has been forced to cancel the first day of his trip to India, describes the situation as "sub optimal".

A Dutch tramper who had been stranded on Mt Taranaki for two days by heavy snow has been plucked to safety.

Richie McCaw made his name as an openside flanker, but the All Black legend is now a wing commander.

Parents of an Air Force sergeant killed in a fatal Anzac Day helicopter crash say they have been let down by the coroner.

A Kiwi team is battling sweltering and dusty conditions in the Middle East.

Whanganui 21-year-old Patrick Richardson has celebrated his formal commissioning as a Royal Navy Officer on parade at Britannia Royal

Memories flooded back for Alan Frewer as he soared into the skies over North Canterbury in a Spitfire.

So pigs can't fly - but four clever pooches showed they could, no sweat.