Police were notified at 7pm last night that a person was missing from a boat on the Waitaki River.

Coastguard and Police are continuing to search for them.

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08 Dec: Worksafe is looking into events at a Christchurch daycare - where children and staff suffered chemical burns on Friday

07 Dec: Five fire crews and two helicopters have contained a vegetation fire in North Canterbury

07 Dec: One hiker's died, and another's been rescued from a track on the South Island's West Coast

07 Dec: About 75 properties are without power in the Bay of Plenty town of Te Puna - after a vehicle crashed into a power pole around 7.30 this morning

07 Dec: The Department of Conservation's accused a handful of Tongariro Alpine Crossing shuttle operators of putting trampers at risk

06 Dec: Multiple homes have been destroyed near major urban centres as fires rip through bushland in tinderbox, heatwave-fuelled conditions

06 Dec: The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is about to resume, 11 years after the plane disappeared in 2014 on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing

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