The Police National Dive Squad is on its way to Lake Rotoiti to help look for a person who was seen to "go under" on Lake Rotoiti yesterday.

EXCLUSIVE: Shelley Crooks has broken her silence on her miracle, six-week survival in the rugged West Coast bush.

The mother of missing student Leo Lipp-Neighbours has been humbled by numerous offers to search for her son using drone technology. Several

Searchers are poised to go into the Southern Alps for an overdue Israeli tramper.

Lost American tourist found cold and wet after getting lost on a Waikato walking track.

A Korean man did not make his planned pick-up after Waikaremoana walk yesterday.

An English visitor who found Shelley Crooks six weeks after she was reported missing describes the moment the pair met on a West Coast track.

An outdoors survival expert says water and shelter were the keys to staying alive for unexpected and lengthy times in the bush.

A dodgy escape route chosen by two bicycle thieves ended up with one of them and a police officer being rescued from a cliff face in Wellington.

The body of a missing 65-year-old tramper has been found in Westland. He was reported missing at midday yesterday after failing to

The search for Auckland woman Carissa Avison has been suspended, a week after she was last seen, amid reports she bought a gun.

A young man is missing after he was last seen swimming in the swollen Hutt River last night.

Search teams elated as DOC worker stumbles across missing tourist.

A German woman missing on Mt Taranaki since Monday is now being assessed by paramedics.

Search for Carissa Avison moves to Woodhill Forest.

A cruise ship passenger has been evacuated to McMurdo Station in Antarctica before flying to New Zealand tomorrow.

The search for a missing young Auckland woman is now focused on an area of forest near Muriwai Beach.

An Israeli tramper was rescued yesterday evening after he became disorientated in Fiordland National Park.

The search for a missing boatie on the Kapiti Coast has been suspended.

Police have named the teenager who drowned in a Taranaki river yesterday.

Three saved as boat hit rocks and starts taking on water in the Bay of Islands.

The search for second person, who is still missing after an inflatable boat capsized in a river on the Kapiti Coast, will resume this morning.

About 60 people - including police, firefighters and defence personnel - are continuing to search for an elderly Auckland woman who has been missing for six days.

The search for missing Torbay woman Pat Wearn has continued throughout today and will continue until night falls this evening, police say.

A yacht that struck an object in the Hauraki Gulf sparks an overnight rescue.

Patricia Wearn has Alzheimer's and hasn't been seen since Monday.

Police have not given up hope of finding missing Waverley man Kerry Riley alive.

The helicopter company involved in the rescue at the Blue Pools near Makarora on Sunday is offering a free helicopter ride to the

The woman wasn't carrying any form of waterproof communication with her.

A distress signal has been activated after a girl was injured during a tramp in the Abel Tasman National Park.