A paraglider pilot escaped with minor injuries when he crashed in steep bush in the Marlborough Sounds last night.

Two people have been rescued from a steep mountain range in the Spenser Mountain area, near Nelson.

A man and his eight-year-old son were winched to safety after rising tides trapped the pair on rocks at Whakatane heads this afternoon.

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.

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.

Two mountain bikers reported as missing in Upper Hutt have made contact with police after spending a night in the bush.

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.

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.

He was a hero for Kiwi Olympic fans in London and yesterday Mahe Drysdale came to the rescue of a tourist who fell onto rocks.

A 14-year-old boy has been airlifted off the Tongariro Crossing this afternoon.

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.