AMI Insurance has been ordered to pay for damage to a leaky building in the Auckland suburb of Epsom that was deliberately set alight.

Brad Chapman said he would never forgive Tonya Bennett for setting fire to his Pukekohe home knowing his mother was asleep upstairs.

A teenager who admitted murdering a mother-of-three by setting her house alight was today jailed for a minimum of 11 and a half years.

A 28-year-old North Shore man has appeared in court over the murder of Jacqueline Blackbourn in a house fire last month.

Police investigating the murder of a dairy farmer in his driveway are looking into an unsolved arson at the property two years ago.

A bar owner reportedly doused in petrol before he escaped his burning hotel had previous run-ins with gang members, locals say.