Police believe they have found a body inside the sunken Jubilee fishing trawler on the seabed off Canterbury.

13 years after the attack, Ms Butler was able to thank those who risked their own lives to save hers.

A 19-year-old woman has been winched off Rangitoto Island by helicopter after she fell and suffered a leg injury.

A woman who was unable to be woken after an evening nap in remote sand dunes was flown to hospital in a critical condition last night.

A tramper was winched to safety after injuring herself in a fall while walking on Sunday.

Search and rescue teams from four regions are looking for a hunter who has not returned after leaving his home on Wednesday night.

Three men have been found safe and well after spending more than 30 hours lost in a 5m aluminium dinghy off the coast off Nukunono Atoll in Tokelau.

A 13-year-old girl was rescued from the water off Auckland's coast today after it was reported she was in trouble.

Police have named 77-year-old Whetuki Sam Kopua and 60-year-old Matekino Lucy Burling, both of Owaka, as the people missing in the Catlin area.

Two trampers were rescued from a mountain in Nelson Lakes National Park after spending a night exposed to -18C and falling snow.

The $5.2m annual loss comes as it continues developing the world's first commercial jetpack, due out next year.

A search and rescue operation was launched yesterday after a boat was spotted doing circles on the Waikato River with no one on board but a dog.

A second body has been found in a field of avalanche debris in the hunt for missing Canadian students.

Two people have been rescued by emergency services after their boat hit rocks in the Hauraki Gulf this morning.

A woman and her 12-year-old daughter had been tramping in the Poukai Ranges, near Mount Taranaki, when they became stuck due to icy conditions.

Police have rescued a man from a yacht on the Waitemata Harbour, where he was having a medical emergency.

A water rescue is underway in Christchurch where a man is clinging to a bridge pillar in the Waimakariri River.

A woman lost on a Waikato mountain was rescued after contacting her family by Facebook on her phone.

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

Two Kiwi sailors had just seconds to grab life jackets and abandon their burning yacht after being woken by their skipper at midnight.

Five people were rescued from a Northland harbour last night after the engine of their overloaded dinghy failed, and they began drifting towards rocks.

An elderly woman who went missing in her car overnight on Thursday on the Karikari Peninsula had become trapped in mud so deep she was unable to open the doors and had to wait to be found yesterday morning.

A group of trampers has been rescued from a Canterbury mountain range after being trapped overnight.

A woman in her 60s who fell and injured her ankle has been rescued from the Waitakeres using an 80 foot winch.

Three young women have been rescued from the Kaimai Range by Tauranga police and search and rescue.

Two under-prepared trampers who got lost in Golden Bay in bitterly cold weather over the weekend “put themselves and their rescuers at risk”, say police.

The organisation responsible for the 2012 Paritutu Rock tragedy is back in the spotlight, after a teen went missing while on a supervised navigation exercise on Mt Taranaki.

Police have called off the search for a vessel believed to be missing on Lake Wakatipu, in the Otago region.

A duck-shooting trip turned to tragedy yesterday after a group of mates were flung from their boat as it capsized on the Waikato River.