Missing Victorian politician found alive after mountain rescue operation.

It's a story that reads like the plot of a movie thriller - lost in the Pacific.

A Canterbury man's holiday voyage turned into a trip from hell last week when the skipper fell overboard.

Former All Black Va'aiga Tuigamala says some of his wife's relatives were among those who perished in last week's tragedy.

Depth of the sunken ferry Princess Ashika means the recovery of the 93 bodies trapped inside would be a prohibitively costly, lengthy and dangerous process.

Police have today released dramatic tape of a mayday call from a missing boat off the Northland coast. But is it genuine?

Twin engine plane carrying people to world-famous trek site fails to arrive at destination.

One of the two bodies recovered after the Tongan ferry Princess Ashika sank last night has a NZ connection.

One of the two bodies recovered after the Tongan ferry Princess Ashika sank last night has a NZ connection.

A survivor has described how the Tongan ferry Princess Ashika overturned and all the women and children perished.

NZ's Rescue Coordination Centre has launched a major search operation after a ferry carrying 79 people sank off Tonga.

A Coroner has been unable to establish what led an Israeli tourist to leave tramping route for an avalanche track where she broke her neck.

A snowboarder killed in an avalanche near Queenstown had recently met someone, fallen in love and was in a 'really happy space'.