A Marlborough man who went to get fish and chips on a aluminium boat at the weekend never returned.

Missing Rotorua man James Williams has been found safe and well, it has been reported.

The search for a missing German tourist has been scaled back after two more days of fruitless searching.

The brother of a 15-year-old boy who drowned while rescuing a young girl off Auckland's west coast says he lives in his brother's footsteps.

It was every parent's worst nightmare; news their child has died while travelling on the other side of the world, their rented campervan swept off the road during a powerful storm.

A young Canadian couple were killed when their campervan was swept off the road by the second landslide to hit the road they were on, an inquest has ruled.

Police are concerned for the safety of a 67-year-old Mosgiel woman who has been missing since Tuesday evening.

Coroner Deborah Marshall will hear details of the disappearance of West Auckland men Peter Chaffe in 1974 and Quentin Godwin in 1992.

Tip-offs from the public have led to police raiding houses they hoped might lead to clues in the case of missing Nelson student Leo Lipp-Neighbours.

A search is underway for a teenage boy who went missing in the Ruamahanga River near Opaki, just north of Masterton, this afternoon.

Expert alpine searchers have found a body in the Nelson Lakes National Park area while searching for missing British tramper Andrew Ian Wyatt.

Wairarapa's soccer fraternity is in shock after the body of a star player and coach was found wedged in rocks at Castlepoint yesterday.

Searchers looking for missing Wairarapa football player and coach, Miroslav Tvaroh, have found a body at Castle Rock, south of Masterton.

High winds forecast for the Nelson Lakes area today are expected to frustrate searchers for a British tramper.

Search and rescue teams spent Christmas Day hunting by land, sea and air for a popular soccer coach missing near an "unforgiving" beach.

Kapiti police are appealing for sightings of an 80-year-old woman missing from her Paraparaumu home.

Fences capable of holding 2500 tonnes of rock will be installed at the Diana Falls slip next year where two Canadian tourists were swept to their deaths.

A body recovered from the Waikato River yesterday has been formally identified as missing Australian Paul Arber.

A body recovered from the Waikato River today was found by a group of teenage rowers from Hamilton Girls High School, police say.

The parents of a missing Australian tennis coach believe their son is still alive and have made a desperate plea for help from the public to find him.

A close friend of missing Australian tennis coach Paul Arber says a sighting of him in the Waikato River early on Sunday has given him hope that he is still alive.

Police are investigating the disappearance of an Australian man while visiting Hamilton.

Police are searching for a man who has been missing from his Wellington home since yesterday.

A Canterbury man who went missing from the Oxford area overnight was found alive in a ditch near his home this morning.

Important information regarding the disappearance of a Tauranga woman 27 years ago was ignored by police, a documentary maker claims.

Tauranga police have offered a $50,000 reward for information into the case of missing Tauranga woman Luana Deborah Laverne Williams who was last seen at her home on the 5th of June 1986 in Tauranga.