The lost English tourist spotted by a helicopter last night in the Kahurangi National Park says he can't describe the relief he felt when he was found.

The English tourist found last night in the Kahurangi National Park had become disoriented and confused the route he was on for another.

A large search is underway for a missing 30-year-old English tourist, tramping in Kahurangi National Park west of Nelson.

Police have resumed their search for an elderly hunter believed to have been swept down a Bay of Plenty river on Saturday.

Police searching for a missing Roxburgh man have found a body in the Clutha River.

An inquest on the disappearance of a NZ man in London has heard he was a hard-working, religious man excited about his wife's pregnancy.

Searchers have found the body of a four-year-old boy who went missing in Northland last night. A diver found the boy in a pool beneath a small waterfall near Otiria Marae in Moerewa.

A search resumed this morning for a four-year-old boy who went missing in Northland last night.