Police are seeking the personal effects of Northland woman Barbara Moka after a body believed to be her was found near Rawene yesterday afternoon.

A post-mortem examination to determine the cause of death was to take place in Auckland this morning.

Police believe they have found the body of missing Rawene woman Barbara Moka.

A search of bush and fields where a Northland woman was last seen two weeks ago has been called off after no new clues to her whereabouts were found.

The wife of a man who vanished nine years ago wants ponds at his workplace dredged in the same way as police have done in their hunt for the killer of Scott Guy.

Police and Search and Rescue volunteers have started scouring bush as mystery deepens around the disappearance of a Northland woman.

The disappearance of a Rawene woman after she left a marae with her partner is a mystery to police, but foul play has not been ruled out.

New Zealand police have been investigating possible sightings of a British man who vanished three years ago and who has apparently been spotted twice in an Auckland mall.

Convicted rapist Adrian Ernest Bayley was on parole when he raped and murdered Melbourne woman Jill Meagher.

An Otago University student who went missing after leaving a friend's flat on Monday night has been found in Alexandra.

Seven months after she disappeared, police have renewed calls for Cissy Chen's killer to come forward.

The husband of missing woman Kaye Stewart says he won't have closure until his wife's remains are found and only "the lousiest person in the world" knows where she lies.

A woman who disappeared in the Rimutakas eight years ago will be officially declared dead at a coroner's inquest today.

Searchers looking for a man missing in the bush since Monday are concerned by the discovery of his cold weather gear, sleeping bag, food and footprints near a swamp.

Police searching for a West Coast man missing in the Waikato since Monday have found his car in an isolated rural area in the King Country.

A Korean woman who went missing in the bush in the Coromandel Peninsula has been found.

Three foreign trampers who went missing for a week in the bush in Golden Bay will tell police about their ordeal today.

Three foreign trampers missing in Kahurangi National Park in Golden Bay for a week have been found safe.

Waikato police have found a missing teenage girl who failed to return from school in Hamilton yesterday.

Divers have joined the search for a 73-year-old yachtie who went missing in mysterious circumstances last night.