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.

Hundreds of people have lined Mt Maunganui beach in a show of support for the ongoing search for missing 5-year-old Jack Dixon.

Divers will be scouring a Canterbury lake today to search for a person who went missing yesterday afternoon.

The mother of an 18-year-old Nelson man whose body was found in a Seattle lake yesterday says it is tragic his "young talented life was ended in Seattle alone".

A Christchurch teenager who had been missing since Wednesday has been found staying at her friend’s place, police say.

The family of missing Christchurch girl Georgia Elisabeth Sent is pleading for information on the whereabouts of the 15-year-old.

Police are seeking to identify a man who arrived at Tauranga Hospital and was able to give only his first name.

British police have reportedly arrived back in Portugal, and it's believed a number of key suspects in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann could be questioned.

A 24-year-old tourist from the United States has has gone missing on the West Coast, police say.

Countries searching for the missing Malaysian plane have yet to agree on how to share costs, an Australian search leader said.

Police have resumed their search for a missing Gisborne surfer, after his car was found near a remote beach.

The mother of escaped prisoner Stephen Maddren has made an emotional plea for her son to give himself up.

After a fruitless three-month hunt for flight MH370, Australian authorities have taken the first step towards handing over search operations to a private contractor.

A missing German tourist has been found safe and well, police say.

British police searching for Madeleine McCann's remains are examining a hole in the ground about 300 metres from the resort she disappeared from.

An international hunt is under way for a German tourist who may be missing in New Zealand.

Police have fears for escaped prisoner who fled an Otago Corrections Facility wearing only trackpants and a top as 'hypothermic conditions' set in.

A new search for Madeleine McCann is underway in Portugal, using dogs, satellite images, a drone and police fingertip searches.