Stories by Phil Pennington

The increased budget means troops can now move past being only partly equipped, says defence secretary Brook Barrington.

The organisations said "irreplaceable" expertise would be lost in order to make only modest savings.

The police union says officers getting body cameras for the first time will counter people doctoring phone footage of interactions.

An expert in warfare law says New Zealand might struggle to stay out of a US-Iran war if the Europeans get involved.

本地最新调查显示，新西兰同时将中国视为"朋友"和"威胁"。但本地学者表示，并不确定这是一种趋势还是短期波动。

Foreign Minister Winston Peters says critics of the government's foreign policy reset are ill-informed and shouting "impotently at clouds".

China is not interested in becoming "a new overlord", a researcher at a Beijing thinktank has told a conference in Wellington.

Ukraine's ambassador to New Zealand has called on China to use its leverage with Russia to help stop the war, criticising the stalled peace process as hollow. Audio

The ministry will set up a list of accredited contractors, after some substandard repairs previously.

Large retailers such as Briscoes, Bunnings and Mitre 10 support the use of facial recognition technology to combat repeat offenders but concerns continue over potential privacy breaches.

Professor Alan Tidwell believes the agreement will change, but never end.

The axe is hovering over historians and staff who create digital content used by schools and the public.

The government's fast track for infrastructure will be the opposite if New Zealand does not get its head around its hotchpotch of data.

RNZ understands a deal with Ngāti Rangi that underpinned the project fell over at the last minute.

The US is modernising its nuclear weapons command and control system - but what does that mean for New Zealand? Audio

The US Army unit behind the Decisive Action Training Environment said it helped army forces "out-think and outmanoeuvre adversaries".

Talisman Sabre is a bilateral Australia/US military exercise with 17 other nations taking part.

After writing off $22.9m on the project abandoned last year, DIA will once again look at options.

Judith Collin told those at the inter-governmental conference the Air Force's 62 Squadron would be reactivated.

The chorus of defence contractors interested in working on the proposed missile defence system is growing, with New Zealand-founded company Rocket Lab in the running.

RHCNZ - which does MRIs, CTs, ultrasounds and the like - increased its revenues and earnings in the latest year by 8-9 percent.

Counter-drone systems received funding in this year's Budget, but this did not include maritime drones which the government's $12 billion defence capability plan says are crucial for transforming the…

The ministry is being compelled to do more to fix its deficient training, data sharing and privacy systems.

A $77 million write-off of the Navy ship HMNZ Manawanui, which sank off Samoa last October, is contained in the Budget papers on defence.

Funding changes come at a time of intensifying security challenges as cyber threats and geopolitical tensions escalate.