Three men have been found safe and well after spending more than 30 hours lost in a 5m aluminium dinghy off the coast off Nukunono Atoll in Tokelau.

A 13-year-old girl was rescued from the water off Auckland's coast today after it was reported she was in trouble.

Police have named 77-year-old Whetuki Sam Kopua and 60-year-old Matekino Lucy Burling, both of Owaka, as the people missing in the Catlin area.

An elderly man was rescued after spending several hours in heavy bush near Taumarunui over night.

Two inexperienced trampers owe their lives to the volunteer search and rescue parties that rescued them from the Nelson Lakes National Park on the weekend, police say.

Two trampers were rescued from a mountain in Nelson Lakes National Park after spending a night exposed to -18C and falling snow.

The $5.2m annual loss comes as it continues developing the world's first commercial jetpack, due out next year.

A search and rescue operation was launched yesterday after a boat was spotted doing circles on the Waikato River with no one on board but a dog.

A second body has been found in a field of avalanche debris in the hunt for missing Canadian students.

Police have rescued a man from a yacht on the Waitemata Harbour, where he was having a medical emergency.

A water rescue is underway in Christchurch where a man is clinging to a bridge pillar in the Waimakariri River.

A woman lost on a Waikato mountain was rescued after contacting her family by Facebook on her phone.

Whitianga teenager Rebecca Harris owes her life to the Westpac Rescue Helicopter.

Five trampers who were rescued from a ravine drove more than 120km to hand-deliver a basket of baked goods to the chopper team who pulled them out.

A teenage tramper was winched to safety in high winds at Raglan's Mt Karioi yesterday afternoon.

Two Kiwi sailors had just seconds to grab life jackets and abandon their burning yacht after being woken by their skipper at midnight.

Five people were rescued from a Northland harbour last night after the engine of their overloaded dinghy failed, and they began drifting towards rocks.

An elderly woman who went missing in her car overnight on Thursday on the Karikari Peninsula had become trapped in mud so deep she was unable to open the doors and had to wait to be found yesterday morning.

Three young women have been rescued from the Kaimai Range by Tauranga police and search and rescue.

Two under-prepared trampers who got lost in Golden Bay in bitterly cold weather over the weekend “put themselves and their rescuers at risk”, say police.

The organisation responsible for the 2012 Paritutu Rock tragedy is back in the spotlight, after a teen went missing while on a supervised navigation exercise on Mt Taranaki.

Police have called off the search for a vessel believed to be missing on Lake Wakatipu, in the Otago region.

A duck-shooting trip turned to tragedy yesterday after a group of mates were flung from their boat as it capsized on the Waikato River.

Police have confirmed that one person has died and three others have been taken to hospital after a boat overturned on the Waikato River.

Marilyn Edge is preparing to say goodbye to husband Murray after the hunter's body was found near Timaru on Monday.

Wind gusts and a boisterous swell 137km off the Tauranga coast did not prevent a helicopter medic from landing on a stricken yacht to rescue its two crew.

An abandoned yacht is still transmitting its position at sea in the Bay of Plenty after a dramatic helicopter rescue in which its two crew were winched to safety.

There's a good chance Ken Darlington wouldn't be here today if it weren't for three lifeguards.