Dowling, currently serving as New Zealand’s Defence Adviser to Australia, will move to New Delhi later this month with his ...

Airport called in the Defence Force but didn’t evacuate staff or the public when a military practice bomb was found in a passenger’s bag during ...

Details around the tense search for a soldier who police feared was armed with knives and petrol bombs have been suppressed ...

FILE - In this photo provided by the New Zealand Defence Force, divers survey the area around HMNZS Manawanui on the southern coast of Upulo, Samoa, after the Manawanui ran aground and sank on Oct. 6.

A former Hawke’s Bay schoolgirl has been named the New Zealand Defence Force Sportsperson of the Year for a second time.

New Zealand’s National Party-led government released a multi-billion dollar Defence Capability Plan last week, which will nearly double the country’s military spending from just over 1 percent to 2 ...

New Zealand is not exactly known as a major military power. For decades the country has relied on its geographical isolation and the reassuring presence of the Australian Defence Force on its western ...

New Zealand said on Monday it would boost defense spending by NZ$9 billion ($5 billion) over the next four years, and aim to nearly double spending to 2% as a share of GDP in the next eight years, at ...

New Zealand's Defence Minister Judith Collins attends a briefing with senior New Zealand Defence Force officers during a ceremony marking the establishment of a space unit at RNZAF Base Auckland. (New ...

New Zealand has two Anzac-class frigates and they will need incremental modernisation till their replacement in the early 2030s. (Gordon Arthur) New Zealand has released its delayed Defence Capability ...