Kiwi fisherman Ross Chapman tread water for six hours after falling into remote waters where there are 'a lot of sharks'.

Police say they can't discount the possibility man and his daughter have fled to Australia.

A tramper has been winched to safety after slipping in Kahurangi National Park in the north-west of the South Island.

A man at the beach where Filipino man was swept out to sea says victim's twin brother told him he had warned the man not to go near notoriously dangerous spot.

A search and rescue operation is underway for a man who's been swept out to sea at Lake Ferry in the Wairarapa this afternoon.

Three people were left clinging to their boat after it capsized about 500m off the Northland Coast this afternoon.

A rescue helicopter has been sent to rescue a tramper injured on Mt Tongariro.

Search and rescue members using night vision goggles spotted the man floating on his malfunctioning jet-ski at around 2am.

Search crew using night vision goggles have rescued a man lost on the Whanganui River after his jet-ski malfunctioned. The rescue

A man has died after falling several hundred metres on to the Therma Glacier at Mt Aspiring.

The two Auckland Westpac Rescue Helicopters have been kept busy over the Christmas period.

Two climbers were rescued from Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park last night, in what was described as a "marvellous" piece of flying in poor conditions.

A stricken ocean racing yacht has arrived in Bluff after striking a submerged object in the Tasman Sea.

Rescuers say it's fortunate there wasn't a double fatality after two climbers fell 200m at Mt Aspiring.

A man lay on rocks for three hours before he was rescued by helicopter with a serious leg injury.

Police are coordinating a search and rescue mission for a missing man in Northland.

A man and his son missing at sea off Tonga since Saturday have been found safe by the NZ Defence Force.

The New Zealand Defence Force is helping search for three fishermen who have been missing at sea off the Pacific island-nation of Kiribati since last week.

An elderly man who was missing in a forest overnight near Wanganui has been found safe and well.

One tramper died near Arthur's Pass and another was airlifted out to Franz Josef Glacier this morning after spending a night seriously injured in a separate backcountry accident.

Fisherman tells of desperate attempts to stay in contact with those on board the charter boat Francie, which sank in heaving seas, claiming eight lives.

The search for the man still missing after the Francie capsized in the Kaipara Harbour is continuing.

A survivor of the Kaipara Harbour disaster was too big for the lifejackets, and desperately clung to the flotation devices while he swam to shore badly injured.

Bill McNatty, 68, was familiar with the water, worked hard to pay off his boat and spent a good chunk of the past three years taking people out fishing.

Choppy conditions face searchers looking for three people missing after a fishing charter trip turned to tragedy on the Kaipara Harbour yesterday.

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The trampers who died in the Tararua Forest Park were found within 1km of the hut they were heading to, police say. The 39-year-old

Temperatures plummeted below freezing the night two men died on a tramp in the Tararua Forest Park.

Walkers put on a rope for safety