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Sunbathing tourist sparks aerial search

An Australian tourist sparked a full-scale search operation in Waikato yesterday - with a helicopter search by police eventually locating him sunbathing at a beach.

Boatie missing after falling overboard named

A 49-year-old boatie believed to be dead after falling off a boat at the mouth of the Hutt River has been identified as Uikilifi Peniamina.

Family ID body pulled from river

Grieving family members have identified the body pulled from a Wairarapa river as that of a missing 19-year-old swimmer.

Search for boatie focuses on eastern coast

The search for the body of a 49-year-old Wellington boatie is focused on the eastern coast of Wellington Harbour.

Little hope for missing boatie

A search has resumed for a man who fell off a boat in Wellington Harbour yesterday afternoon.

Search for missing boatie in Wellington Harbour

Family identify body found on Coromandel track

Missing kayakers found safe

A father and son have been found safe and well this morning after spending a night in a at the base of a cliff following a kayaking trip that went wrong off the Canterbury coast.

Missing Waipu woman found

Police have found the Waipu woman who went missing from her home last night.

Rescued boaties had no comms device

The three people rescued from a crippled sailboat in the Hauraki Gulf overnight were all wearing lifejackets but had no form of communication.

Three people rescued from boat in Hauraki Gulf

Three people have been rescued from a boat drifting in the Hauraki Gulf early this morning.

Man survives 60 hours at bottom of Atlantic (video)

Entombed at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in an upended tugboat for three days, Harrison Odjegba Okene begged God for a miracle.

In right place at right time

A young Waikato girl who heard a German teen's cries for help on Mt Ruapehu says he is "incredibly lucky" to be alive.

Injured climber: 'I was very, very lucky'

Wanja Drees was on the lower reaches of Mt Ruapehu with a badly broken leg and no mobile phone when he decided he would have to try and make his way out himself.

Hurt climber uses laces to stay alive

A teenager who fell 100m down Mt Ruapehu might have died if not for his quick thinking - and shoe laces.

Climber crawls to safety

A ill-equipped German tourist wearing street shoes had to drag himself to fetch help after a fall on Mt Ruapehu today left him with a bleeding, broken leg.