Defence Force

In the three years since Te Papa's Gallipoli exhibition opened the crowds have kept coming - so it will stay on.

An additional $4.1 million over four years will go towards health and wellbeing assessments to ensure veterans have ongoing support after leaving the Defence Force.

Police say that while there's no specific threat to Anzac Day on Thursday, security will be tight.

Two sexual abuse survivors from Burnham Military Camp near Christchurch have spoken publicly about the horrors they endured.

Afghanistan villagers, who claim to have lost relatives in a military operation involving New Zealand soldiers, need to be front and centre of an inquiry into the incident, a lawyer says.

No Anzac Day services planned in the Waitaki District will be changed this year, but the council is working with police to provide a heightened level of security, the mayor says.

A former high ranking Defence Force official has pleaded not guilty to a charge of attempting to make an intimate visual recording.

For the first time the Australian Army has formally honoured a New Zealand Army unit for courage, for supporting their operations in the Vietnam War.

The makers of a documentary accusing the Defence Force of committing offences in Afghanistan say a review into those allegations is inadequate.

Devonport community leaders are worried a former landfill might be contaminated with firefighting foam chemicals.

The Defence Force says the conduct of one soldier fell below its standards while on patrol in Afghanistan in 2004.

A man who fell off a yacht 27km east of Tolaga Bay this afternoon has been rescued after spending more than three hours in the water.

The government is being urged to hurry up and commit to urgent upgrades of old and risky Defence Force property.