Investigators will return to the scene of a large industrial fire in Taupo.

A suspicious house fire being investigated by police in West Auckland is the same address where a woman was stabbed to death last month.

Two Canterbury fires are being treated as suspicious after being discovered one street apart in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Smoke is currently billowing out of a property on Juliet Street in the Taranaki town of Stratford.

Judges orders boss to pay $12,000 to worker seriously injured when fuel tank exploded.

Fire has badly damaged an automotive shop north of Auckland this morning.

A Coal Creek family has lost everything when fire tore through their home at 3am.

Early morning fire badly damages Greymouth home.

Firefighters from across Southland who were called to an explosion at Dongwha New Zealand's plant in Mataura at 4.30pm are preparing to leave the scene.

A man suffered serious head injuries after crashing into a power pole in Waiuku, and three others were injured in a Glenn Innes crash.

Images are starting to come out of Kaikoura where widespread damage and one death has occurred.

A resident is calling for the state house where a woman died after it suspiciously caught fire to be demolished. Linda Winifred Edwards

A popular Auckland shopping mall was evacuated this morning after a fire broke out at a baby shop.

Fire gutted a classroom at the former Kenmure Intermediate School site in Dunedin this morning.

Police have named the woman who died after an Auckland house fire on Tuesday.

Three fire trucks are rushing to a bushfire in the Far North.

Smoke alarm alerts pair to fire.

Firefighters use water pumped from the ocean to fight an overnight blaze.

A Fire Service spokesman said the fire in Napier was contained fairly quickly.

Tim and Fiona Noble have lost all possessions and the home in which their children grew up - and grandkids loved to visit - has been destroyed by fire.

"Use some common sense," NSW's rural fire chief told the bushfire selfie taker. Social media users were more blunt: "Seriously mate, grow a brain!"

A dinghy found floating near Brown's Island may be connected to the mysterious fire there, police have confirmed.

Initial fears people may be inside soon passed.

Using paint and rocks, a woman deserted on an Auckland island for three nights wrote "Help me" on the beach.

The Fire Service received 402 calls to the emergency 111 line last night.

Emergency services are at the scene of a serious house fire in South Auckland.

Strong wind gusts are hampering the efforts of more than 600 firefighters who are fighting to contain 36 bush and grass fires across the state.

A fire that was rapidly spreading down a cliff in swanky Auckland suburb St Heliers has been extinguished.

The final moments of a fire brigade's fishing competition fundraiser were cut short when the call for help went out.

A house has gone up in flames in Manukau's Clover Park area.