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Unneeded searches frustrate police
An unnecessary search and rescue callout on New Year's Day has police urging holidaymakers to advise others before starting off on expeditions.
An unnecessary search and rescue callout on New Year's Day has police urging holidaymakers to advise others before starting off on expeditions.
A twenty-year-old who was missing for 24 hours on a mountain battered by severe storms has been found "walking, talking and cold", police say.
A hunter was winched out of a steep ravine by a rescue helicopter after being stranded for a night in bush on the East Coast.
Poor weather today halted an aerial search over one of the last places a tramper who is missing in Kahurangi National Park, near Nelson, could be.
The body of a man recovered from a creek in the Mikonui River area, south of Ross on the West Coast, has been confirmed as that of 50-year-old Christchurch man Rex Leslie Taylor.
Rescue staff are renewing calls for trampers to carry emergency beacons after the partner of a wounded woman descended Mitre Peak and kayaked back to Milford village to raise the alarm.
Specialist cavers and a rescue helicopter will today resume their search for a tramper missing in Kahurangi National Park near Nelson.
Searchers are spending their Christmas holidays scouring some of the most rugged country in New Zealand looking for missing tramper Alistair Levy.
Two trailbikers missing in Upper Hutt last night used petrol from their bikes to build a fire so they could survive a wet night in the Akatarawa forest, police say.
Auckland police were worried about an elderly couple who disappeared on a short drive across the city on Christmas night.
A man and his son have been choppered to hospital after being burned in an accident with a camp stove that was accidentally knocked over.
Family members of a Northland father and son caught in rough weather when their jetski broke down headed back out to retrieve the jetski after the rescue.
Two English tourists have been rescued by helicopter from the Nelson Lakes National Park after becoming lost in steep terrain today.
A 22-year-old Waikato farm worker is missing after hitching a ride home on Friday night, sparking fears for his safety.
The West Coast search for missing Christchurch tramper Rex Leslie Taylor, 50, has been suspended, after another two-day search failed to yield more clues as to his whereabouts.
A search has begun for an 84-year-old hunter reported missing in the Lake Rotoroa area in the Nelson Lakes National Park.
A solo Dutch tramper who became lost and disoriented in poor weather in Marlborough yesterday afternoon has been rescued by helicopter.
A badly injured man was being flown to hospital last night after the vehicle he was in plunged about 200 metres from Te Mata Peak, Havelock North.
An Air Force Orion is this morning continuing to search for three Kiribati fishermen overdue from a fishing trip.
An ill-prepared Chilean tourist who got lost while tramping in Mt Holdsworth would have died if he had not had a mobile phone with him, say search and rescue volunteers.
A snow-blind 27-year-old Canadian man was rescued from Mt Aspiring yesterday after his father in Australia alerted Wanaka police that he seemed to be in trouble.
Police are seeking public help to find a 51-year-old Rotorua woman who has been missing since last November 7.
An Auckland woman and her partner say being rescued from their stricken yacht in the middle of the Pacific Ocean taught them to enjoy every moment of the future.