A 20-year-old Auckland man was walking in shallow water with four mates when he was knocked down by a rogue wave and swept to his death at a normally safe Northland beach.

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.

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.

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

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