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.

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.

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.

A close friend of missing Australian tennis coach Paul Arber says a sighting of him in the Waikato River early on Sunday has given him hope that he is still alive.

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.

At least 30 journalists currently are reported missing while covering Syria's civil war. The widespread abduction of journalists is unprecedented.

Police hunting the parents of 'Maria', the blonde girl found living with gypsies in Greece have charged the couple she was found with, and released photos of them.

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.