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Food drop for trans-Tasman kayaker
An urgent aid mission will get underway today to drop vital supplies to a kayaker attempting a solo trip across the Tasman Sea.
An urgent aid mission will get underway today to drop vital supplies to a kayaker attempting a solo trip across the Tasman Sea.
Five men had a lucky escape when the dinghy they were in capsized on the Waikato river.
A kayaker who capsized in wild Northland weather last night was embarking on his usual 10-minute commute home from work.
The search for missing Gisborne man Duncan Munro ended tragically yesterday for his family when his body was found in a remote area on the Mahia Peninsula.
The body of a missing Queenstown woman has been found by searchers in Lake Wakatipu.
A Blenheim man has been rescued in California, thanks to his New Zealand-registered personal locator beacon.
Deep in a glacier crevasse with a broken arm and ankle, Sabine Hellenbrandt expected to take her last breath trapped in the ice. Then she heard members of the South Westland Alpine Cliff Rescue call to her.
A kayaker trying to traverse "car-sized boulders" on a trip in the eastern Bay of Plenty sparked a helicopter call-out after slipping and falling into a river.
A French tourist swept away after slipping into a raging Woolshed Creek late on Wednesday was washed over a terrifying two waterfalls before clambering out.
Searchers couldn't believe their eyes when a woman who had been swept away in Woolshed Creek late yesterday afternoon walked out alive last night.
A search is underway for the two occupants of a crashed helicopter on the West Coast.
A search is under way in South Westland for a Nelson woman who has not been heard from in eight days.
A man is in hospital with suspected spinal and chest injuries after tumbling about 30m down a bank while hunting.
It was like MacGyver meets Rescue 1 when a tramper found a badly injured man lying in a stream in the Waitakere Ranges.
Auckland Mayor Len Brown has voted to slash funding to the Westpac rescue helicopter service, three days after assuring the service he would sort out a $900,000 funding gap.
The Auckland Council has approved a $14.3 million funding package for 10 regional amenities, which includes a cut for the Westpac helicopter rescue service.
Police searchers have been scouring a small area off the Coromandel coastline for an oil slick in their hunt for a small biplane that disappeared after take off yesterday morning.
A search for a missing small plane which disappeared from radar has been scaled down for the night.
Four things you should know about the ongoing search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
A teenager who became trapped on a steep bluff in the Waitakere Ranges in darkness used the screen light from his cellphone to guide rescuers.
Auckland's rescue helicopter service claims it has been starved of money - but it turns out to be much better off than its fellow charities.
The hunt for four men missing in four separate incidents across New Zealand continues today.