Relief after a fire at Hamilton's Waikato Museum caused only minor damage.

A specialist fire investigator has been called to investigate a blaze at the Waikato Museum in Hamilton this evening.

A 3-year-old Paengaroa girl saved her family from potential tragedy after she alerted her sleeping father to a fire that destroyed half of their rented home on Thursday night.

A blaze ripped through one of the world's top art schools yesterday, damaging a historic building designed by architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

A lightning strike caused a large fire which razed an historic homestead to the ground near Glenorchy this morning.

Cooking oil left burning on stoves has caused serious burns to an elderly lady and left a young family homeless in two separate house fires in Whangarei over the weekend.

The death of a 39-year-old at an onshore oil rig in Taranaki today remains unexplained.

A person suffered facial burns following a house fire in Wainoni, Christchurch, this morning.

Fire crews are battling a house fire in Wanganui this morning.

A 34-year-old man has been charged with arson over a huge fire that destroyed part of a Wellington storage facility.

A huge fire has engulfed a Chilean port city registered as a World Heritage site for its historic collection of wooden buildings and railways.

A raging fire leaped from hilltop to hilltop in the colorful port city of Valparaiso, killing at 11 people and destroying over 500 homes.

'There's quite a lot of devastation in there'. It took more than 90 firefighters to bring a massive blaze in Gore under control at a commercial building.

A North Korean official has been executed with a flame-thrower, South Korean media has reported.

Residents in a block of four North Shore flats rushed to wake each other up after a fire ripped through their building last night.