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.

Drowning a tragedy but dam flood to remain open as an attraction, says Taupo mayor.

The teenager who drowned after he was swept into the flooded Hutt River on Thursday was trying to rescue his friend.

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.

Twins needed CPR after being pulled from a pool in Sydney.

The family of a Hamilton man who drowned in the Waikato River, as his dog sat at the edge, have left the city as memories of his death remain raw.

The girlfriend of a 19-year-old man who drowned in an Otago lake on Saturday has criticised the lack of signage on the shore.

A man who saved a young girl from drowning yesterday then went home to get his dive gear to recover the body of a young man.

A wife is distraught after her husband died at the beach where he posed for his wedding photo just seven months earlier.

Water Safety New Zealand issues warning after a disturbing series of images showing someone being swept off their feet by a crashing wave.

Finbarr Patrick Clabby could not swim when he ended up in Wellington Harbour after a night out. His body was found later the same morning.

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

The familiar red and gold colours of surf lifesavers are about to make a return to Northland beaches this weekend as the weather and

As smoke billowed from her vehicle Susan Evans lay trapped and unconscious inside. Murray Michie didn't think twice about going in and cutting her free.

A five-year old boy who died north-west of Auckland this afternoon drowned after his quad bike crashed into a creek, police have confirmed.

A woman who survived an ill-fated rafting trip that claimed the life of her Oscar winner husband by clinging to a ledge as waters raged around her has died.