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.

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.

Missing Rotorua man James Williams has been found safe and well, it has been reported.

The brother of a 15-year-old boy who drowned while rescuing a young girl off Auckland's west coast says he lives in his brother's footsteps.

It was every parent's worst nightmare; news their child has died while travelling on the other side of the world, their rented campervan swept off the road during a powerful storm.

A young Canadian couple were killed when their campervan was swept off the road by the second landslide to hit the road they were on, an inquest has ruled.

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 Romanian man who disappeared while volunteering with the Department of Conservation on a remote island likely drowned, a coroner has found.

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.

A search is underway for a teenage boy who went missing in the Ruamahanga River near Opaki, just north of Masterton, this afternoon.

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.

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.

Fences capable of holding 2500 tonnes of rock will be installed at the Diana Falls slip next year where two Canadian tourists were swept to their deaths.

A body recovered from the Waikato River yesterday has been formally identified as missing Australian Paul Arber.

A body recovered from the Waikato River today was found by a group of teenage rowers from Hamilton Girls High School, police say.

The parents of a missing Australian tennis coach believe their son is still alive and have made a desperate plea for help from the public to find him.