Searchers are this morning waiting for a break in the wind to send up three helicopters, including an Iroquois helicopter, to scour the Tararua Ranges for a missing runner.

Police are today searching a "massive" area of the Tararua ranges after a man failed to return from a run yesterday.

Search teams are pinning their hopes on one last area of the Kahurangi National Park where Alistair Levy has been missing for nearly a week.

Police hope the successful conclusion of a search for a missing elderly Alzheimer's sufferer will attract more subscribers to technology they say made all the difference.

Poor weather halted an aerial search over one of the last possible locations for a tramper who is missing in Kahurangi National Park, near Nelson. A rescue helicopter was supposed to fly over Castle Basin at the top of Mt Owen in search for Alistair Levy.

The brothers of a woman believed to have been murdered say they cannot rest until their sister is returned to them.

The brothers of a woman believed to have been murdered have said they cannot rest until their sister's body is recovered.

The man charged with the murder of five-year-old Welsh girl April Jones struggled to hold back tears as he appeared in court.

Police in Wales remain hopeful of finding a five-year-old girl kidnapped off the street, alive. April Jones has been missing for 24 hours.

The man accused of raping and killing Melbourne woman Jill Meagher will receive Victoria's highest level of protection in jail amid fears for his safety.

A police forensic team is searching a shed near the makeshift South Auckland grave of a body believed to be missing pregnant woman Rae Portman.

Colleagues of Melbourne woman Jill Meagher have been paying tribute to her today, after her body was found and a man charged with her rape and murder.

A 32-year-old Hamilton man has appeared in court over the kidnapping of Rae Portman who went missing from Auckland in June.

CCTV images show missing ABC employee Jill Meagher talking to a man as she was walking home, minutes before her suspicious disappearance.

Police have released a CCTV image of a missing British schoolgirl and her 30-year-old maths teacher on board a ferry to France.