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A body's been found in the search for a jet skiier, who went missing from the Waikato Bar, on Christmas Day

27 December 2025

This brings the holiday drowning toll to two - after a person was swept from rocks south of West Auckland's Piha Beach yesterday afternoon.

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26 Dec: A search continues for a person who went missing after a jet ski incident near Port Waikato on Christmas

25 Dec: A person's been airlifted to Auckland's Middlemore Hospital, after a quad bike rolled over around 2.30pm at Northland's Pouto Point

25 Dec: A Coromandel holidaymaker is still in shock after a shark attacked his kayak 'completely out of the blue.'

25 Dec: A light aircraft has crashed into an unoccupied house on the Coromandel Peninsula

25 Dec: The Civil Aviation Authority's investigating after a light aircraft crashed into a house on the Coromandel Peninsula

25 Dec: Two people have been badly injured after a car crashed into a tree in Tolaga Bay, north of Gisborne, early this morning

24 Dec: State Highway One through Northland's Waipu is blocked following a crash - leaving 5 people injured, one seriously

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