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.

A Navy ship is attempting to close in on the last known location of a boat belonging to a missing Marlborough man.

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.

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.

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.