Mark ­Foster has been spotted making several trips to a popular site where strangers have public sex.

A Robin Hood sentiment pervades the 2017 High Performance Sport New Zealand funding budget.

High Performance Sport New Zealand has released its funding allocation for next year with triathlon, cycling and swimming the big losers. Join Guy Heveldt for more.

Ongare Point, just north of Katikati is home to a massive community effort to clean up the waterways. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Despite tragedy at the weekend, it is one of the "safest" lakes around, the harbourmaster says, because of the clearly-defined areas for passive recreation, such as swimming.

Kaikoura's fur seals famously splashed and frolicked in a pool at the foot of a waterfall. And then the earthquake came.

Stopping the flow of pollutants into urban Whangarei's 6000 stormwater traps and planting trees along the waterways could all help

TRAGEDY: Sixty-eight-year-old Bruce Smith died during the Sand to Surf event on Saturday. PHOTO/ANDREW WARNER 191116aw21bop By staff

She’s a former ballerina, rower and now marathon swimmer. Kiwi Kim Chambers has just completed a seemingly impossible, historic swim across the Dead Sea. Kim talks to Bernadine Oliver-Kerby from Tel Aviv, Israel.

It's regularly voted one of the world's best, but Coromandel's Hot Water Beach is also New Zealand's most dangerous.

One month before making more history at the Olympics in Brazil, Michael Phelps was getting married in the desert.

Learning how to swim and being safe around water are important lessons many New Zealand children learn early on.

Shelley Bridgeman shares five traps for unwary pool owners.

The Auckland Westpac Rescue Helicopter crew were sent out to Colville on Sunday in one of 19 callouts over the long weekend.

A surfer has had a lucky escape after being bitten by a shark in northern NSW, leading to all beaches in the area being closed.

A raft of changes to safety rules for swimming pools will save lives, the Government says - but some are not convinced.

Swimmer Glenn Snyders has retired as one of only four New Zealanders to compete in three Olympic Games.

Auckland's first luxury liner has arrived - marking the beginning of the cruise season.

Sophie Pascoe can't stop breaking records.

Paralympics star Sophie Pascoe is revelling in another gold medal and a world record from her latest success in Rio.

Sophie Pascoe has won her second gold of the Rio Paralympics.

Kiwi swim star Sophie Pascoe won her second medal in her second outing in dominant style at the Paralympics in Rio yesterday.

Sophie Pascoe has won her second medal in her second outing in very dominant style at the Paralympics in Rio.

The Olympian has reportedly been suspended after over-exaggerating a story that he was held at gunpoint during the Rio Olympics last month.

The body of missing Kiwi Rhys Cochrane has been found under the superyacht he was working on off the French coast.

One of the swimmers caught up in a web of lies with Ryan Lochte has turned against him revealing that Lochte started yelling at security guards.

Questions are being raised about Ryan Lochte's future in swimming as he faces an Olympic disciplinary commission after lying about an armed robbery.

Claims of a rift between swimmers and the rest of the Australian team have been blamed for a disappointing medal haul.

Thousands of Australians have thrown their support behind top swimmer Emma McKeon, declaring the punishment handed down to her for

Ryan Lochte cosies up to two Brazilian teenagers just hours before concocting his bogus robbery story to hide a wild night of women and partying.