It's now feared more than 50 asylum seekers drowned when their wooden boat smashed onto rocks on Christmas Island.

The search for 17 fishermen missing in the Southern Ocean has been suspended as no further survivors are expected.

Hope is fading for 17 missing fishermen after a South Korean trawler sank in the Southern Ocean, claiming at least five other lives.

The search for 17 people missing after a Korean fishing vessel sank in the Southern Ocean early today has been scaled down as it becomes increasingly unlikely further survivors will be found.

Five people are dead and 17 missing after a Korean fishing vessel sank in the freezing waters of the Southern Ocean, 2700km south east of Bluff, early this morning.

There is plenty to see and do at the New Zealand Maritime Museum, discovers Gill South.

A volunteer drive to clean up Kiwi beaches for summer has collected 10 tonnes of rubbish.

NASA has just released this amazing image of phytoplankton bloom around the Chatham Islands.

The slaughter of 23 seals on the Kaikoura coast last week has prompted debate on whether seals need to be culled in the area.

The Navy's newest ship, the fault-prone HMNZS Otago, is once again being forced to return to port.

Shocked holidaymakers are shunning the beaches at a luxury Egyptian resort plagued by a series of deadly shark attacks.