The Rotorua white-water community is in mourning after the loss of international kayaker Louise Jull.

The 26-year-old experienced kayaker who died on the lower Kaituna River, near Rotorua, had competed at an international level in white water kayaking.

Searching has resumed this morning for a Rotorua woman missing on the Kaituna River after she became separated from her kayaking companions.

The Westport man who died while kayaking off Tauranga Bay last month has today been named by police.

Lisa Carrington eased to her seventh straight K1 200m title on the final day of the Canoe Racing New Zealand national championships at Lake Karapiro yesterday.

The body of an English tourist who collapsed while on a kayaking trip has been recovered by police.

Anne Cairns is a veteran of a range of paddling sports. But at the canoe racing national championships next week she'll take the first step towards achieving Olympic qualification.

A kayaking Anglican bishop is about halfway through a 250km water pilgrimage from Auckland to the Bay of Islands.

A kayaker who drowned in a New Zealand river at the weekend was pictured in front of the raging water just hours before he lost his life.

Long-distance kayaker Scott Donaldson has never appreciated having a shave or a hot pie so much, but it's being able to move around in more than a metre of space that he's enjoying most.

Scott Donaldson says he'll be 'irked for a long, long time' after he was rescued from high seas kilometres from completing a 3-month odyssey across the Tasman Sea in a kayak.

A kayaker attempting the first solo crossing across the Tasman has drifted further away from the Taranaki coast overnight as rough seas got even worse.

Kevin Pennell etched his name into the folklore of the Waihi Nugget Multisport Festival recently when he produced a superhuman effort because "he didn't want to let his team mates down".

In the past year Sam Clark has been a cyclist, a marathon kayaker, an ultra-marathoner and a frustrated patient.

Teneale Hatton has won gold in the K1 1000 final by more than five seconds from Australia's Naomi Flood.

Lisa Carrington has suffered a surprise defeat at the second kayaking World Cup of the season in Racice, Czech Republic.

Lisa Carrington will head to the second World Cup canoe sprint in Racice, Czech Republic next week having received confirmation in Milan last weekend that her form is good and the advantage she has over her rivals remains intact.

Jane Martin and her team have been counting down to next weekend's Marlborough Sounds portage kayak race for some time.

A kayaker trying to traverse "car-sized boulders" on a trip in the eastern Bay of Plenty sparked a helicopter call-out after slipping and falling into a river.

As a strong current dragged his kayak further out to sea, Philipp Cartier's freezing fingers fumbled for the emergency light he hoped would get a helicopter's attention.

A father and son have been found safe and well this morning after spending a night in a at the base of a cliff following a kayaking trip that went wrong off the Canterbury coast.