Lindsay Curnow pauses over her bowl of homemade pumpkin soup and says, "I didn't find it hard to be gay before this."

The Te Puke blaze cost a young mother all her possessions and caused $230,000 of damage.

Two lower North Island schools burned overnight, amid fears a copycat arsonist is on the loose.

A family home which was badly damaged by fire just two weeks ago was this morning completely destroyed by burglars.

A suspected arson attack destroyed a home and damaged a business in West Auckland early yesterday.

An Auckland nurse, whose husband has been convicted of trying to murder her 12 years ago, may get compensation.

The families of two men wrongly jailed for arson are still angry at the officer in charge of the case.