Coromandel town police officers are baffled as to why anyone would want to set fire to their small station.

An apprentice mechanic whose dream car was torched in Masterton on Saturday has been swamped with offers of parts from all around the country.

Police today apologised for arresting a Tokoroa woman more than five years after she lost her job when she was wrongly charged with conspiracy to commit arson and two years after the police watchdog found the investigation was botched.

A prisoner set fire to her cell bedding at Christchurch Women's Prison last night, causing extensive damage and injuring two prison guards who came to help her.

A lesbian couple have been targeted by arson and had anti-gay slurs graffitied on their property.

The Ministry of Education has stepped in make sure an Auckland primary school, torched by arsonists on Friday, can reopen on time.

A 3-year-old dog has been burned to death by an arsonist who doused its pen with petrol and set it alight.

Arsonist Phoebe O'Donaghue has no remorse and no empathy for the family whose house she torched as they slept, a Probation Service report says.