The father of a teenage boy presumed drowned at Piha said he brought him to New Zealand for a chance of a better life.

A teenage girl who tried desperately to save her classmate from drowning has told of the moment he was ripped from her arms.

A teenager is missing, presumed drowned, after he was washed off his boogie board at Piha yesterday.

Searchers have found the body of the second man who drowned in a tragic flounder fishing trip southeast of Auckland.

A Manuwatu river rafting company has been ordered to pay $300,000 in fines after the 2007 drowning of an employee.

The mother of a baby girl who died after being found face down in a bath was regularly visited by Child Youth and Family.

A 15-year-old found dead in a North Canterbury river was the cousin of hip-hop star Scribe.

An instructor tells an inquest about the day six students and a teacher died during a canyoning trip she was leading in the Mangatepopo Gorge.

An American woman dies after becoming pinned under a rock when a family rafting trip on the Mohaka River turned to tragedy yesterday.

A former television stuntwoman, whom rescuers spent 25 minutes reviving after a near-drowning on New Year's Day, has died after she was sent home from hospital.