Occupants of an SUV badly damaged by fire on State Highway 1 north of Dunedin have escaped without injury. Video / ODT

Smoke was noticed by the car behind the vehicle.

It comes after the biggest show of dissent in decades over harsh anti-virus restrictions.

Firefighters from South Island airports trained with four new fire trucks from Austria.

Late-night demonstrations made against the city’s draconian “zero-Covid” lockdown.

Mother and her four children perished in the high-rise blaze.

The blaze occurred at a company dealing in chemicals and other industrial goods.

Tu'imala Moala (nee Fulivai) died in a house fire in Tonga and her family want answers.

Increased demand for cloud computing has prompted AWS to make a big investment.

There will be a public memorial service in the city's Transitional Cathedral on Friday.

The moment Shani's Family Eatery and Bar in Napier was set on fire has been captured in an astonishing video. Video / Supplied

Emergency services were called to Taumarunui Auto Parts in Manunui early this morning.

A court has been told the horrifying messages a jilted escort sent to her client.

Police are investigating the cause of the overnight fire in the Buller district.

"I just got a text message and it just said, 'hun, your house is on fire!!"

Chris Morris watched a fire broke out on Te Mata Peak on Friday night. Video / Supplied

First time in two years that whānau can gather without restrictions for Guy Fawkes.

What started the Canterbury blaze, concern over New Zealand’s meth market and former Pakistan PM caught in an assassination attempt in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald

The evacuated residents of the Woodend Beach Holiday Park will be allowed to return home as aerial reconnaissance of the vast Canterbury beach blaze shows fire investigators focusing attention on its origins at a car park area. Video / TVNZ / George Heard

Police have confirmed fireworks started the large beach fire.

All have been 'successfully evacuated, all safely' with no reports of property damage

Massive blaze rips across Canterbury beach, investigations continue into student’s unexplained death and the Government tackles buy now pay later schemes in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald

More than 130 people have been evacuated.

SkyCity's car park deal with Macquarie falls through in repercussions from 2019 fire.

Emergency services respond to a fire in a high-rise building in central Wellington. Video / NZ Herald

Fire at Auckland City Mission. Video / Dean Purcell

Lane closures on the arterial route of Hobson St in Auckland's CBD are causing delays.

Warning issued over battery disposal after waste truck catches fire in Lower Hutt.

Emergency services responded to missing fishermen callout, then spotted the fire in Huia.