After more than three days of frustration and failure, divers finally found a way into a submerged ferry off South Korea's southern shore.

The 9 year old missing boy, Linkin Kuka has been found safe and well at a friends address in Henderson this morning, according to police.

Toddler Chloe Campbell was snatched from her home to frighten her father in an act of retribution, family friends believe.

A nine-year-old boy, who has epilepsy, has been reported missing. He was last seen in Sunnyvale, West Auckland. Anyone with information should call 111 immediately.

Chloe Campbell, the three-year-old girl who went missing from south-east Queensland, has reportedly been found alive.

Relatives of a 70-year-old woman who has been missing from Papatoetoe since midday on Monday are concerned about her welfare.

A homicide investigation has been launched in Christchurch after the car of a missing woman was discovered in a supermarket carpark.

A boat belonging to a Marlborough man missing for more than a week has been recovered overnight but there is no sign of Kerry Blair aboard.

An intellectually disabled man who requires medication has been missing for two days after he failed to arrive at Auckland from Hamilton.

Police are searching for a Christchurch man who has been missing for a week.

A possible sighting of the missing launch Erie and its skipper William Kerry Blair has been eliminated as being another boat, police say.

Searchers have run out of leads in the hunt for missing Marlborough boatie Kerry Blair.

A plane carrying three search and rescue spotters has found no trace of a Marlborough boatie who disappeared four days ago.

A Marlborough man who went to get fish and chips on a aluminium boat at the weekend never returned.

The search for a missing German tourist has been scaled back after two more days of fruitless searching.

Police are concerned for the safety of a 67-year-old Mosgiel woman who has been missing since Tuesday evening.

Tip-offs from the public have led to police raiding houses they hoped might lead to clues in the case of missing Nelson student Leo Lipp-Neighbours.

Expert alpine searchers have found a body in the Nelson Lakes National Park area while searching for missing British tramper Andrew Ian Wyatt.

Wairarapa's soccer fraternity is in shock after the body of a star player and coach was found wedged in rocks at Castlepoint yesterday.

Searchers looking for missing Wairarapa football player and coach, Miroslav Tvaroh, have found a body at Castle Rock, south of Masterton.

High winds forecast for the Nelson Lakes area today are expected to frustrate searchers for a British tramper.

Search and rescue teams spent Christmas Day hunting by land, sea and air for a popular soccer coach missing near an "unforgiving" beach.

The parents of an American teenager missing at sea on the stricken yacht Nina are vowing to stay Downunder until she is found alive.

A 13-year-old girl missing for more than a week has been found after her family made a desperate appeal to get her home before Christmas.

Kapiti police are appealing for sightings of an 80-year-old woman missing from her Paraparaumu home.