Pavlina Pizova waded through waist-deep snow with frozen feet to reach a hut in the NZ wilderness after her partner died - but her ordeal was far from over.

Pavlina Pizova, who survived a month in a remote hut on the Routeburn Track, broke down in tears as she spoke about her fight for survival.

Police trace movements of Czech tramper - and her partner - who waited a month at hut following his death on Routeburn track

A tramper is believed to have fallen to his death on the Routeburn track.

The search for a missing 18-year-old lost off the New Plymouth coast has continued today.

Search and rescue teams have suspended their search for the man missing in Tararua Forest Park overnight.

Distressed kayaker who sparked a search on the Waikato River last night calls police to say he is alive.

Knee-deep in snow, three walkers couldn't go forward and the path behind them had turned to ice.

A hunter who suffered a heart attack was winched to safety from hill country near Raglan last night.

An injured Brit who spent two freezing nights under ferns in rugged West Coast bush says he survived on just an apple.

Police divers will search lakes in the area where a Waikato woman was reported missing.

A tramper has been rescued after spending a freezing night in Marlborough bush.

Divers and sonar equipment used to find a New Zealand fisherman missing in Australian waters.

A Tauranga woman did not stop to think about the dangers of the cold water or swift current when she dived in to save a young boy on a bike.

Searchers looking for a fishing vessel lost off Hobart with a New Zealander on board have given up hope of finding anyone alive.

Two families trapped by snow in Kahurangi National Park nearly 24 hours after their vehicles struck trouble have been rescued.

Police have named the man killed in last night's Waihi mine accident.

Police have suspended the search for a missing Upper Hutt woman who has been missing for five days.

So pigs can't fly - but four clever pooches showed they could, no sweat.

Two kayakers have been rescued after getting into trouble off the Whangaparoa Peninsula north of Auckland this morning. Emergency

The mum of one of two hero police officers who helped save the lives of two people when a truck plunged into the Manawatu Gorge praised her son.

Three inexperienced surfers are counting their lucky starfish after getting caught in a rip and being sucked out to sea yesterday.

Nearly $60,000 was spent rescuing 38 people stranded after their 4WD vehicles became trapped in snow in Central Otago.

A search and rescue operation is underway for a woman missing in Northland.

A woman has been rescued from the Abel Tasman National Park after becoming unwell during a day walk, police say.

The man who is missing and presumed dead after falling overboard from a Kiwi yacht foiled a robbery earlier this year.

The captain of the ship that rescued three people trapped on damaged yacht Platino in Pacific Ocean says crew were grateful to make it out alive.

Sixty three-year-old man was swept away after the yacht Platino sustained damage to its rigging 550km north of New Zealand.

Authorities will decide this morning whether to resume the search for a man washed overboard from a yacht in huge seas north of New Zealand.

A container ship has reached the stricken Platino yacht and its crew are now being transferred aboard the ship.