The Orewa College board of trustees pleads guilty to charges laid against the school after a fatal boiler-room blast last June.

Fire is the third attack on an early childhood centre in the Nelson region in a year.

The seaside Waikato township of Raglan is reeling after parts of the historic wharf went up in flames this morning.

A fire that razed a Manawatu home overnight was "no accident" police say, amid reports a molotov cocktail sparked the blaze.

Dozens of firefighters last night battled a huge blaze at the country's biggest graveyard, the Waikumete Cemetery in West Auckland.