A kitesurfer has been critically injured after smashing into a car in Porirua, near Wellington.

Members of the New Zealand public are giving generously to the families of the men who tragically died in a boating accident in Kaipara

The body of ill-fated Francie skipper Bill McNatty has been returned to his family.

Fisherman tells of desperate attempts to stay in contact with those on board the charter boat Francie, which sank in heaving seas, claiming eight lives.

A fellow boatie said he had laid complaints about skipper Bill McNatty's competence.

Police have suspended the search for the man still missing from yesterday's Kaipara Harbour tragedy until 5.30am tomorrow, because

The search for the last victim of the Kaipara charter boat tragedy is under way this morning.

Volunteer lifeguards battled waves up to 7m high as they desperately searched for survivors of the Kaipara charter boat tragedy.

The skipper of the doomed fishing charter vessel Francie is among those who died in yesterday's tragedy.

Darius DeWet docked at Tauranga over the weekend on his 6.7m yacht, Luna.

Large-scale searches involving helicopters had to be deployed for a 20-year-old inexperienced yachtie after he went missing twice.

A VHF radio was being ferried last night to an inexperienced yachtie found alive yesterday off the East Cape after an extensive search.

A pleasure boat with 142 passengers on board crashed into a pier on the River Thames after a fire broke out in its engine room.

A 33-year-old mother has died while rescuing her two-year-old son who had fallen into a lake in Utah from a boat they were travelling in.

The yacht on which one sailor was killed and another lost at sea has arrived back in New Zealand under tow.

Significant decrease in recreational boating deaths shows targeted safety campaigns are working, says Government.

Surviving a horror boat accident which claimed the life of a friend has completely changed New Zealand woman Sarra Hunter-Weston's outlook on life.

There are two types of people in Auckland today. Those who say, "So what. It's just a boat". And humans, writes Andrew Dickens.

Clinging to their upturned boat, injured and being smashed by violent 6m waves, three Auckland boaties thought their time was up.

An avid sailor who is recovering from his injuries after the boom on his yacht struck him in the head, credits his survival to careful planning and regular contact throughout his journey.

KiwiRail says internal investigation ruled out external factors or a power surge as the cause of the 2013 incident.

A man on a fishing vessel has been winched to hospital after suffering from a medical condition out at sea.

A New Zealand woman was flown to hospital with serious head injuries after a boating accident in an Australian tourist hotspot.

Two people on board suffered cuts and bruises after boat slams into Waiheke Island coastline.

The parents of the two overseas students who died when kayaking on Lake Tekapo are still waiting for their sons' bodies to return home.

One of the two men who died on Lake Tekapo should have already been home, but he loved his time downunder so much he stayed on for another term.

Rescuers yesterday revealed the lucky break that meant the toll from the Lake Tekapo kayaking tragedy was not worse.

The two young tourists who died after falling into Lake Tekapo yesterday have been named.

Passengers on the boat that capsized near Greece, and claimed the life of a toddler, say the toddler's father was working with smugglers and driving the boat.

A boss acting for the MV Rena's Greek owners has again said sorry for the ship's calamitous grounding four years ago.