Lifeguards warn campaigns to attract visitors to the regions increase the drowning risk.

A man who drowned off a Horowhenua beach had turned down the offer of a life jacket.

A 'stretch' to blame Whitianga Fire Station over Luke Cochrane's death.

The friends of missing Tevita Kava say they did not get a safety briefing on the boat.

Dad of two, Leslie Gelberger, went for a swim one day and never came home, what happened?

Family of drowned angler keen to meet the man who retrieved his body.

A body has been found in Wattle Bay, Manukau Heads, police say.

A father is still missing in the Manukau Harbour, an air search continues this afternoon.

Searchers will take to the skies at low tide to look for a missing fisherman.

Searchers have confirmed that the body of a 21-year-old student missing at Lake Karapiro has been found.

As preventable summer drownings hit a six-year high, Labour are calling for greater swimming education at schools to keep young Kiwia safe in our waterways.

Grown men cried on hearing news of death of popular young man after a summer afternoon swim.

Police name drowning victim.

'She'll be right' attitude will be the death of young men in our waters.

Rachael Louise De Jong's life was tragically cut short when she was swept down the Waikato River on Monday.

A man is believed to have suffered a medical event at a public swimming pool in east Auckland.

The young woman swept to her death when floodgates opened on Waikato River was a young Aucklander with an infectious smile that could "cheer anyone up".

Police have named a young woman who died when she was swept down the Waikato River yesterday.

An elderly man has died at a Nelson beach, despite attempts to rescue him.

A pregnant woman watched helplessly as rescuers tried to save her fiance after he was pulled from a Northland beach.

A man has drowned off Ruakaka Beach today after he and two others were swept 100m offshore.

Police have named the teenager who drowned in a Taranaki river yesterday.

Twenty-one seconds is all it took for Wendy Atkinson's 2-year-old to scale their regulation-standard pool fence.

A woman is in a critical condition following a near drowning on Auckland's North Shore.

The deaths of 21 young Kiwi men who drowned in our waterways last year were preventable, Water Safety New Zealand says.

The name of the Filipino fisherman who was washed out to sea yesterday has been released.

A NZ family is mourning the loss of their2-year-old girl after she tragically drowned after she was found unconscious in a backyard swimming pool.

One person has died in a water rescue at Doves Bay Marina, near Kerikeri in the Far North.

Three people nearly drowned at a Raglan beach this evening.

Police name the man found washed up on a west coast beach on Christmas Eve.