Authorities are investigating the possibility that John Beckenridge and his 11-year-old stepson Michael Zhao-Beckenridge have left the country, police say.

A decision, by police looking for a missing 11-year-old boy, was still being made on how to extract a vehicle from the bottom of a Southland bay.

The school where a boy disappeared from with his stepfather despite a parenting order says any child could leave the school if they really wanted to.

Police searching for a missing 11-year-old boy and his stepfather have gone back into the water at Curio Bay in Southland, where they have found a vehicle earlier identified by underwater camera.

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

The kayaker missing off Wellington’s Island Bay today has returned home safely.

A German tourist thought to be missing has come forward after spotting a photograph of herself on Facebook and contacting police.

Search teams have been deployed into Eastern Fiordland as the search continues for a missing German tourist.

Mother of three Laura Singh, who was missing for five days, is undergoing medical assessments after she was found in Wellsford yesterday.

A 22-year-old man is believed drowned in the Waikato River at Hamilton tonight.

A search is underway for a swimmer who went missing in Cromwell in Central Otago this afternoon.

Searchers have found the body of a Kiwi who set out for a walk on a mountain in northern England on January 8 and wasn't heard from again.

An Australian visiting Auckland has been missing since the early hours of Friday morning.

Police are still looking for Leeann Ailini Scott, aged 48 years, who has been missing from the Taipa area since December.

The search for three climbers feared dead on Aoraki-Mt Cook has been called off after six days, and their families told their bodies may never be found.

The family of an Australian climber missing for four days on New Zealand's tallest mountain are coming to terms with fears he is probably dead.

An extensive search will be launched at first light tomorrow for a Canterbury man who has not been seen for more than two weeks.

The partner of a fisherman missing since he fell from an inflatable boat is still hopeful he will be found alive, despite it being four days since he was last seen.

A search has resumed this morning for a missing fisherman who has not been seen since his boat capsized in an estuary north of Auckland on Saturday.

The body of a missing man whose dinghy was found in an Invercargill river has been recovered.

The search for a missing 22-year-old man in the Hawke's Bay has been suspended.

A US dad accused of kidnapping his son and sailing through the Pacific has been found in Niue, thanks to a coordinated search between the FBI and help from NZ.

Police are offering a $50,000 reward to crack a cold case concerning the suspected homicide of a Dunedin mother.

An 11 year-old girl who ran away from her home late last night has been found.

Tracks at Mount Maunganui have been re-opened as police wind down a search operation for two missing people, including five-year-old Jack Dixon.

Detectives are hoping a Queensland woman who emerged alive after 17 days lost in rugged bushland will fill them in about the ordeal.