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 young mother frantically tried to revive her baby daughter after finding the infant floating face down in the bath next to her twin.

An outdoor pursuits centre field manager told an inquest today it was too dangerous for him to rescue a group of students from a gorge.

An outdoor pursuits field manager has told an inquest he wishes an instructor had not taken students into a gorge where they died canyoning.

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.

An 11-year-old boy watched his father drown at a Far North beach yesterday as he tried to retrieve the boy's boogie board.