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.

Police are investigating the disappearance of an Australian man while visiting Hamilton.

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.

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

Tauranga police have offered a $50,000 reward for information into the case of missing Tauranga woman Luana Deborah Laverne Williams who was last seen at her home on the 5th of June 1986 in Tauranga.

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.

British police said the timeline and version of events surrounding the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has "significantly changed," allowing them to build their most detailed reconstruction of the case yet.

British detectives investigating the 2007 disappearance of Madeleine McCann in Portugal will on Monday publish new e-fits of men they want to contact, in a major public appeal.

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 new picture of a possible suspect connected to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann will be released by UK police, a news report says.

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.