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Man 'helping police' after huge blaze

At least one man is "helping police with inquiries" after a suspicious blaze gutted a West Auckland discount shop overnight.

Netball boss facing arson charges resigns

The chief executive of Canterbury Netball and the Tactix trans-Tasman netball championship franchise has resigned.

Police investigate burglary, arson at Dunedin bakery

Insurer ordered to pay for house deliberately set alight

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

House fire deliberate - police

Boys want to talk to dead mum

Sons can't forgive mother's killer

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

Arson charge after Manawatu fire

Teen jailed for fatal arson

Three arrested after school blaze

Feilding murder probe looks at cold case arson

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

UK teen jailed for deaths

Netball: Tactix chief executive on arson charge

Owners of burned hotel had enforced no-patch rule

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

Australian to be tried over bush fire deaths

Robbers doused hotelier in petrol, lit hotel

A man was doused in petrol but managed to crawl to safety as his hotel burned to the ground after a robbery this morning.

Wrong house set on fire

Police know who burnt down skifield cafe