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 man charged over two suspicious fires in Wainuiomata has been charged with another eight counts of arson.

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.