An investigation into a Shotover Jet crash which left two people hospitalised has found the crash was down to driver error.

Albany businesses forced to close yesterday because of burst water mains seem unlikely to get any compensation for their losses.

Watercare is pumping water from tankers into water pipes for almost 600 elderly people in two retirement villages and a hospital affected by a general water outage in the Albany area.

The mother of a Kiwi teenager who died while freediving in Australia at the weekend says her son had a passion for diving and spearfishing

A Kiwi teenager has died while free diving with three friends off the Australian coast yesterday.

The Tasman District Council has given its consent for the proposed Waimea Community Dam, says Irrigation NZ.

Swimmers are being told to steer clear of the water at popular beaches on the North Shore after water quality tests returned poor results.

A young English tourist is being praised for trying to save a Malaysian man who is believed drowned after jumping off the Tolaga Bay wharf on the East Coast.

An English tourist jumped in the water to try and save a man who jumped off the wharf at Tolaga Bay - but he was swept away by a wave.

A German tourist thought to be missing has come forward after spotting a photograph of herself on Facebook and contacting police.

A group of young adventurers are taking to the water in some unusual kayaks in a bid to battle plastic pollution.

A search is under way for a missing German woman in the Manapouri Hope Arm area in Southland.

"I'd say she'd probably only had maximum probably another minute, minute-and-a-half if she hadn't got out," said an officer who helped woman from car.

Two police officers who dragged a 63-year-old woman from her sinking car at an Auckland wharf believe she was about a minute away from drowning.

Drought throughout much of the South Island and dry conditions in parts of the North look set to add urgency to water storage and irrigation schemes.

Twenty-six crew members on board an Australian-flagged fishing boat are trapped by ice in Antarctica, sparking a rescue bid by a New Zealand fishing vessel.

It was the cartoon frog that caught my eye. It was smiling - beaming, even - and the lines above the eyes highlighted the fact that this was one happy little amphibian.

The body of a dead man clutching a lifejacket washed ashore early this morning in the Whangarei Harbour.

A desperate plea by 15 bystanders for passing jetboats to rescue a 30-year-old struggling in the chilly waters of the Hokitika Gorge were ignored by the boaties.

A 70-year-old Auckland man participating in a sailing regatta north of Wellington was wearing a lifejacket that wasn’t inflated when he died.