The search for a missing 18-year-old lost off the New Plymouth coast has continued today.

A man missing from a hospital with a life-threatening head injury has been found.

A 12-year-old boy who went missing last night after not returning home has been found safe and well.

Police hold concerns for an elderly woman missing overnight in South Auckland.

Police spent the night looking for a Hamilton teen with mental disabilities, refusing to give up the search overnight.

Divers and sonar equipment used to find a New Zealand fisherman missing in Australian waters.

Alpine rescuers search near Mount Bovis for the man, dressed only for a day tramp, who has been missing since Saturday.

The family of a missing Marlborough boatie say somebody is accessing his personal Facebook account, more than two years after he vanished.

Searchers are continuing to look for two missing crewmen from a fishing vessel lost off Hobart with a New Zealander on board.

There has been a heart-breaking discovery in the search for a missing Kiwi and his three friends after they disappeared while on a fishing trip off Hobart.

Police are appealing for information about the whereabouts of Christchurch teen who has not been in touch with his family for 24 days.

Two children who sparked a major police search after they stole away from a Tuakau home in the dead of night are now believed safe with family.

Police are appealing for any sightings of a Hawke's Bay man who's not been seen all weekend.

A woman with a mental impairment has been missing for two days and police now say they hold grave concerns for her.

The search continues for two siblings who haven't been seen since Monday night when they left a rural South Auckland property with a large suitcase.

Watch: At a police conference police said they were still not sure why the siblings had fled the property.

Police are concerned for the safety of a 78-year-old Taupo Alzheimers sufferer who has not been seen since putting his rubbish bin out three days ago.

Two six-year-old girls who were missing with a Bay of Plenty woman have been safely returned.

A 59-year-old Wellington man who went missing on Monday has been located safe and well.

Police are looking for a 59-year-old man missing since Monday.

A 12-year-old boy with health problems who went missing in Christchurch has been found safe and well.

Police are looking for Donald Adam Summer who went missing since yesterday morning. He is also known as Donald Adams or Don.

Missing 14-year-old Faith Nevalagi found after she was last seen about midnight on Saturday in Onehunga.

The family of a hunter missing in bush as temperatures dropped to near freezing are relieved he has been found and still has his "cheeky smile".

Police have found a 74-year-old woman missing from Raglan since Monday.

Searches throughout Buller have failed to find missing Westport man, Willem Hendrik van Vuuren, aged 54.

Emergency services are tonight searching for a pensioner missing north of Wellington.

Hamilton Police are appealing to the public for any sightings of Hamilton woman Helen Seffert who is missing after going for an early morning walk.