Queensland is losing up to $131m a day in coal exports over floods which have left 40 towns isolated or partly underwater.

The body found near Matarangi on the Coromandel Peninsula yesterday has been identified as that of missing teenager Cem Erbay. The death is being treated as suspicious.

Police believe they have found the body of a man who has been missing since he leaped from a bridge in Hamilton last Thursday.

Three boaties who spent the night in Cook Strait could have been rescued much sooner.

Both of the men missing after their small boat capsized off Wellington's south coast last night have been found alive.

Three runners missing near Lake Rotoma since yesterday have been found this morning in the Rotoma Forest by a search and rescue team.

Hamilton police are appealing for help in identifying a limping man who leapt from a bridge into the Waikato River today.

A diver failed to resurface after going underwater north of Kawau Island and has not been seen for several hours.

A climber is reported to have been killed and a paraglider has spinal injuries after accidents on two South Island mountains today.

The search for 17 fishermen missing in the Southern Ocean has been suspended as no further survivors are expected.

Hope is fading for 17 missing fishermen after a South Korean trawler sank in the Southern Ocean, claiming at least five other lives.

The search for 17 people missing after a Korean fishing vessel sank in the Southern Ocean early today has been scaled down as it becomes increasingly unlikely further survivors will be found.

Five people are dead and 17 missing after a Korean fishing vessel sank in the freezing waters of the Southern Ocean, 2700km south east of Bluff, early this morning.