Police search for missing boatie
The search has resumed this morning for a 74-year-old man who has been missing since his boat capsized at Manukau Heads yesterday.
The search has resumed this morning for a 74-year-old man who has been missing since his boat capsized at Manukau Heads yesterday.
The doomed Costa Concordia was carrying a huge shipment of Mafia-owned cocaine when it set off on its final voyage, investigators have said.
Rusty wires caused a lifeboat to fall from its sling on a cargo ship in Wellington Harbour, injuring a crewman.
A man was flown to hospital after being seriously injured in a water skiing accident at Taupo today.
An investigation into a Shotover Jet crash which left two people hospitalised has found the crash was down to driver error.
Auckland's volunteer surf lifeguards are raising their hands for help - up to eight facilities need improvement over the next decade, says Surf Life Saving Northern Region.
Strong winds have caused Interislander ferry Aratere to move around, causing damage to a loading ramp in Picton Harbour.
The Westport man who died while kayaking off Tauranga Bay last month has today been named by police.
Police are investigating the death of a 48-year-old kayaker found floating in the water at Tauranga Bay near Westport today.
Two men who used a chilly bin to help them swim 2km to shore when their dinghy sank off last night say their "driving force" was their partners and young children.
Sixteen passengers and a Fullers crew member were injured when the vessel struck the wharf late this morning, crunching its bow and knocking people out of seats.
Two men used life-jackets and a chilly bin to help them swim 2 kilometres to shore when their dinghy sank off Papamoa Beach last night.
Jake Macpherson doesn't like the water - but that didn't stop him diving into the ocean to save the life of a stranger swept off rocks at a popular Northland beach.
A small dinghy used by a man who fell into the Whangarei Harbour and drowned has been discovered by police, tied to a buoy where the fisherman was last seen.
The captain of the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia may remain a free man - for now - despite being found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 16 years in prison.
Police divers searching for a woman who did not surface from a crayfish dive at the weekend have found a body.
Three years after he crashed the Costa Concordia, former captain Francesco Schettino will learn this week if he is to spend most of his remaining years in prison.
"Who would leave a boat on autopilot in a harbour packed with boats fishing?" Police confirm an investigation into a yacht that knocked a man unconscious.
A mother and her son who were swept out to sea at a Hawkes Bay beach have been discharged from hospital and are back home recovering.
When Ian Waterson saw a mother and her child being swept out to sea he ran outside, jumped onto his 4WD farmbike and drove straight into the ocean.
Trouble has again hit the Melilla 201. It's been tied up at a Dunedin wharf for two years, and nearly ran aground as it tried to leave yesterday.
Queenstown's harbourmaster isn't impressed after four men he advised to get off their inflatable airbed floated under bungy jumpers - and were fined.
A veteran yachtsman spent two cold, wet hours perched on the mast of his heritage yacht after it hit rocks and sank in the middle of the night.
A man who attempted to swim across the Waikato River last night is presumed drowned, according to police.
A man was rescued off the Northland coast overnight after a yacht struck rocks and sank.
Police have confirmed a body pulled from the water off an Auckland beach on Monday was that of missing swimmer, 24-year-old Johnny Perese Faitaua.
Family and friends of a young Chinese man who drowned in Northland on Christmas Day are campaigning for bilingual warning signs about deadly coastal rips.
Searchers looking for a missing swimmer at a West Auckland beach found a body yesterday morning.
Agony for family of missing swimmer Johnny Faitaua after body found in the water near Bethells Beach, west of Auckland.
Family of missing swimmer hold vigil at Auckland beach as rescuers search coastline.