Family of a Hamilton teen missing from a Raglan beach say they will continue to search for him until he's found.

So you're a grommet, I say to my teen on the way to Raglan. He looks puzzled but his friends enlighten him. A grommet or grom is slang for a young surfer.

A teenage tramper was winched to safety in high winds at Raglan's Mt Karioi yesterday afternoon.

A paddle boarder who was believed to be missing has been located by police and is safe and sound.

Elisabeth Easther takes the boys on the road down to Raglan for a weekend.

Great surf and scenery and a passionate local populace impress Elisabeth Easther.

Campbell Burnes sat down with College Sport chief executive Dave Currie, who has been in the job just a few months. This is part one of a two-part interview; read the second in next week's College Sport.

Vinnie Woolston, a model from Raglan who says he was once "just a grom", is the new face of the Yves Saint Laurent men's scent La Nuit de l'Homme.

A light plane plane has crashed into water off Raglan Beach and sunk.

A shelter of the steppes finds a place under the nikau, writes Monique Balvert-O'Connor.

The police and SPCA have carried out a search of a Raglan property as part of an investigation into how the bodies of two cats ended up dead in rubbish bags.

A woman punched a French woman in the jaw, knocking her to the ground, and shortly afterwards punched an Australian woman in the nose, making it bleed.

Danielle Wright discovers small-town seaside charms on a weekend away in Raglan.

A man has drowned after being swept away while fishing in Raglan overnight.

The subtropical weather system which brought torrential rain to the Nelson region has abated and been replaced by much more pedestrian weather, MetService says.

Minutes before a small tornado tore through Raglan, there was almost no wind and clear skies.

A small tornado brought down a tree, broke windows and damaged a roof in Raglan this afternoon.

The parents of a 3-year-old boy who was hit by a reversing car at a Raglan boat ramp this morning have praised the quick response of members of the public.

Five men who attacked a young French couple as they slept in their campervan on their last night in NZ could be connected to local shearing gangs, say police.

Two French tourists camping overnight in the Waikato were violently attacked after they were accused of not paying "rent" to their attackers.