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.

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.

Important information regarding the disappearance of a Tauranga woman 27 years ago was ignored by police, a documentary maker claims.

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.

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.

Concerns have been raised for an Auckland teenager who has been missing for a month.

A team of 50 volunteers and rescuers have returned to Haast for the night after spending the day searching for the body of Canadian tourist Connor Hayes.

Searchers looking for missing Canadians Connor Hayes and Joanna Lam have recovered a woman's body from the beach near Haast this afternoon.

The search for two missing Canadians on the West Coast has shifted to a recovery operation, police say.

The chance of finding a Canadian couple alive after their rental van was hurled down a remote West Coast gorge in a landslide is now very remote, police say.

Relatives of a Canadian pair whose van has been found smashed to pieces are holding out hope for their loved ones as police say they're looking for bodies.

It is likely a landslide in the Haast Pass hurled the campervan that two missing Canadian tourists were travelling in last Tuesday into the flooded Haast River.

Police searchers have released a haunting photograph of the wrecked campervan chassis belonging to two missing Canadian tourists.