Fire crews battling a scrub fire have evacuated residents at Mangatoetoe.

An 11-year-old boy received serious burns after petrol from a lawnmower exploded in the sleepout where he and a teenager were sleeping.

Owners of a prized race car used in a NZ film are said to be devastated after the vehicle was destroyed by fire.

The Ministry of Education has stepped in make sure an Auckland primary school, torched by arsonists on Friday, can reopen on time.

A clean-up began yesterday at a primary school left in ruins after a fire swept through a third of its buildings on Friday.

A blaze which "totalled" a block at Auckland's Glendowie Primary School is being investigated as an arson.

A summer boating holiday ended yesterday in a cloud of black smoke and two burned-out shells on the side of the road.

Much of an Auckland primary school was in ruins last night after an intense blaze which created a vast plume of smoke visible from many parts of the city.

The alleged attempted arson of a campervan may have been an "extreme reaction" to freedom camping...

Thick smoke from a fire in one of Auckland's biggest department stores poured out on to Queen St late last night, shutting major city streets.

Firefighters have contained a large scrub fire in Masterton which was burning on about six hectares of land.

Police are investigating how a yacht caught fire, burned through a line and caused damage to two other yachts nearby.

A remote-controlled toy plane given to a teenager for Christmas nearly claimed his family's lives after it set their house on fire.