Police say an elderly woman who sneaked out of a New Plymouth rest home, checked herself into a motel for the night.

Police want help to find a 23-year-old Tauranga man missing since the beginning of the month.

Up to 80 personnel are searching rough country for missing man Brett Hall.

Searchers say hopes of finding 30-year-old Yue Gui's body are not good.

Police have found a missing horse rider in Rimutaka Forest Park.

A Wellington diver who made headlines when he mysteriously disappeared from Titahi Bay near Porirua gave an elaborate account of being abducted when he turned up some 300km away two days later.

A man who faked his disappearance on a diving trip then turned up at a Hawkes Bay police station had claimed he'd been sexually assaulted, it emerged today as he pleaded guilty to wasting police time.