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.

Nelson police are looking for a white car, believed to be linked to a missing man.

Lifeguards and police have recovered a body on Uretiti beach and believe it may be that of a missing Russian swimmer.

A Canadian backpacker who had been missing since February 8 has been found safe and well.

British police say a DNA test has confirmed a New Zealand girl who looks strikingly like Madeleine McCann is not the missing youngster.

The family of a 72-year-old Martinborough man who went missing at sea is appealing to the public for sightings of his lifejacket to help them piece together the puzzle of his last moments.

Friends of a man believed to have been murdered initially thought he had been kidnapped and say they had all been prepared to contribute to whatever ransom demand was made.

Police believe a man whose body was found in Gisborne may have gone to the Rhythm and Vines music festival before he went missing almost a month ago.

A Chinese man whose body was found in Auckland Harbour has been identified by a relative this morning.

Relatives of a missing Martinborough man are yet to return home from a makeshift camp at the south Wairarapa bay where he went missing more than a week ago.

Police hope the large colourful emblem on the front of an Adidas T-shirt will help identify a man whose body was found floating in Auckland harbour.