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.

Coroner Deborah Marshall will hear details of the disappearance of West Auckland men Peter Chaffe in 1974 and Quentin Godwin in 1992.

A 14-year-old boy who had been missing for two weeks has been found safe and well in Christchurch.

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.

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.

Police have found the Waipu woman who went missing from her home last night.

Police are searching for a man who has been missing from his Wellington home since yesterday.

A Canterbury man who went missing from the Oxford area overnight was found alive in a ditch near his home this morning.

A grieving elderly mother sat in tears today as a coroner ruled out suicide as a reason for her son's disappearance more than seven years ago.

New information leads police to offer a reward of up to $50,000 to help them solve the mystery of the disappearance of Luana Williams from Tauranga 27 years ago.

An Irish tramper, missing for two days in Kahurangi National Park, has walked into Nelson safe and well after a lucky encounter with a doctor.

A new privately-funded search for the missing yacht Nina is taking off this morning - more than five months since the historic yacht left Opua in the Bay of Islands.

Police are seeking a man who took his 5-year-old daughter from school while she was in the legal custody of another family member.

At least 30 journalists currently are reported missing while covering Syria's civil war. The widespread abduction of journalists is unprecedented.

A man who spent 119 days lost at sea is urging NZ authorities to continue the hunt for the Nina, saying he's living proof people can survive against the odds.

Canadian Michael Hayes leaves NZ today knowing he achieved what he came to do by visiting the place where his son Connor was killed by a landslip last month.

A Chinese backpacker who survived three days without food or equipment, as poor weather closed in, didn't know bushes were dangerous.

A Chinese backpacker missing at National Park, Ruapehu since Sunday has been found alive, police said.

West Coast police are asking tourism operators and white baiters to keep a close eye out for any signs of missing Canadian man Connor Hayes.