A number of New Zealanders still unaccounted for after Saturday's destructive earthquake in Nepal.

Landslides have forced people from the worst affected villages in Nepal to carry their injured out by foot in the aftermath of the devastating 7.8 earthquake.

Three phone companies have announced it will credit its New Zealand customers’ calls and texts to Nepal following the deadly earthquake.

Two New Zealand climbing groups have reported that they are safe in Nepal.

A New Zealand search and rescue team that was due to leave for earthquake-devastated Nepal last night has been stood down.

If there's one thing that will bring Murray Edge home safely, it's a simple threat: Come home or the tree gets chopped.

The wife of missing Dunedin hunter Murray Edge is losing hope, saying 'it's a bloody good way for him to go.'

Police are looking for a tramper who has failed to return to collect gear left in a hut.

An underwater search of a Canterbury lake will continue today for a kayaker who has been missing for four days.

The family of a missing Dutch tourist is travelling out from Holland as the search for him continues.

Rosco the dog sparked a dramatic emergency operation when he decided to swim from Maungatapu to Matapihi.

It has been a "bad and very sad year already" for aviation in the south, the Civil Aviation Authority says.

Tributes are flowing in today for two of New Zealand's most experienced Cessna pilots who died in a horror crash that also claimed the lives of their two children.

Four bodies - believed to be from the same family - were last night recovered from the wreckage of a light aircraft near Wanaka.

Police have recovered four bodies from a light plane that crashed near Wanaka.

The family of a man whose body was found in the Waikato River last week claim he was the victim of "medical and bureaucratic malpractice".

A German tramper has been found following a search involving three ground teams yesterday.

A man who went for a "drunken dunk" in Mission Bay last night is extremely lucky another man searching for his Go Pro was able to assist in his rescue, police say.

A climber rescued after he got stuck on Mt Taranaki overnight was left at the summit by his mates.

A young English tourist is being praised for trying to save a Malaysian man who is believed drowned after jumping off the Tolaga Bay wharf on the East Coast.