California officials fear up to 40 people have been killed in a massive fire that happened Friday night during a concert inside a building in Oakland.

At least nine people died in a blaze that broke out during a party in a converted warehouse in the San Francisco Bay Area,

Six fire crews are battling a "well involved" Nelson house fire and searching the property to see if anyone is inside.

Rush hour traffic between Hastings and Napier has been affected by a blaze at a Napier Fertiliser works earlier today.

An historic four-storey building near Dunedin's Octagon has been damaged in a suspicious blaze.

A fire at a vacant Housing NZ property in Manurewa is being treated as suspicious.

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.

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 Dunedin man who burned down his family home days after his marriage fell apart can now be named.

Emergency services are responding to two incidents, one a fatal car crash at Clarks Beach and the other a fire on Ponui Island.

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

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.

Police investigate a fatal house fire in Mt Roskill.

Two men found guilty of burning another man alive for his life savings have had their appeal thrown out by the Supreme Court. Shivneel

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.