The mother of a Kiwi teenager who died while freediving in Australia at the weekend says her son had a passion for diving and spearfishing

A Kiwi teenager has died while free diving with three friends off the Australian coast yesterday.

The Tasman District Council has given its consent for the proposed Waimea Community Dam, says Irrigation NZ.

A massive pipi bed in Whangarei harbour is dying and there are fears the change could destabilise the harbour - and Marsden Point itself, Radio NZ reports.

There were emotional scenes on the East Coast north of Gisborne yesterday afternoon as divers located and recovered missing Malaysian man Kuan Loon Loh.

An English tourist jumped in the water to try and save a man who jumped off the wharf at Tolaga Bay - but he was swept away by a wave.

A German tourist thought to be missing has come forward after spotting a photograph of herself on Facebook and contacting police.

A group of young adventurers are taking to the water in some unusual kayaks in a bid to battle plastic pollution.

Search teams have been deployed into Eastern Fiordland as the search continues for a missing German tourist.

Auckland's Ngati Whatua tribe is closing Okahu Bay beach tomorrow for a tribal event - the first time since it won co-management of the beach in 1991.

A search is under way for a missing German woman in the Manapouri Hope Arm area in Southland.

"I'd say she'd probably only had maximum probably another minute, minute-and-a-half if she hadn't got out," said an officer who helped woman from car.

Twenty-six crew members on board an Australian-flagged fishing boat are trapped by ice in Antarctica, sparking a rescue bid by a New Zealand fishing vessel.

It was the cartoon frog that caught my eye. It was smiling - beaming, even - and the lines above the eyes highlighted the fact that this was one happy little amphibian.

The body of a dead man clutching a lifejacket washed ashore early this morning in the Whangarei Harbour.

A desperate plea by 15 bystanders for passing jetboats to rescue a 30-year-old struggling in the chilly waters of the Hokitika Gorge were ignored by the boaties.

A 70-year-old Auckland man participating in a sailing regatta north of Wellington was wearing a lifejacket that wasn’t inflated when he died.

Mission Bay Reserve is one of Auckland's most popular summer evening spots. So why are the men's loos allowed to get so filthy?

A state-of-the-art $2.5 million vessel is set to make a marked difference in the way water rescues are carried out.

At the moment, there is more water leaving the water treatment plants than there is entering the wastewater treatment plants, because of the dry spell, writes Phoebe Falconer.