A young Swiss climber had to be rescued yesterday after suffering a nasty fall in the three passes area near Arthur's Pass.

A couple got into trouble while swimming at a notoriously dangerous west coast beach late at night.

The elderly Wellington grandmother missing after going for a run yesterday has been found.

Yesterday the Police Search and Rescue Dive Squad spent more than eight hours unsuccessfully searching the depths of Lake Rotoiti for the man.

A tramper has been rescued from the Tararuas after spending the night injured.

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 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

Police have concerns for Alan Langdon, 49, and his daughter Que who left Kawhia Harbour in the Waikato bound for Bay of Islands on December 17.

Czech embassy helping contact dead climber's family.

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.

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.

A man and woman who lost their way spent a chilly night on Mt Ruapehu before being rescued this morning "cold and hungry".

A pair of overdue Canterbury trampers had a lucky escape from predicted bad weather last evening after their delayed arrival at the

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.