Alarm may have been activated following wild weather.

A school that has been hit by fire and three tragic deaths this year has finally got some good news - a $4m repair job for its leaky classrooms.

Residents of coastal town, Whiritoa, had a lucky escape after 260mm of rain fell yesterday and created havoc in the Coromandel Peninsula. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Authorities this afternoon lifted access restrictions on roads around the Port Hills area. Dyers Pass Rd is now open all day and

No one was home when fire broke out in an Invercargill home and now it's being treated as arson.

A resident in a Moscow high-rise made a miraculous escape when she fell 60ft in a bid to escape an enormous blaze.

A house fire in Whanganui this afternoon led emergency services to cordon off a street. Barrack St was cordoned off from Somme Parade

No one was in the apartment at the time of the fire and it was too early to confirm the cause.

A separate fire was also burning near Ormondville in Manawatu.

A grateful community says thanks to the volunteer firefighters who fought the recent blazes in Christchurch.

A Kiwi couple have returned to total destruction after a blaze left their holiday home near Taupo in ashes.

Helicopters will return at dawn to see the damage caused by yesterday's wildfire north of Christchurch.

Travel is safer now, so fewer of us are dying in large-scale disasters, but climate change could reverse the trend.

Large fires near the Hanmer Springs turnoff on the Lewis Pass Rd have brought traffic to a standstill and cut power in the area.

Arsonists leave $40,000 bill after setting fire to slides in children's playground.

Firefighters are battling a bush fire on Auckland's North Shore.

A man suffering serious injuries is to be flown to hospital after a car fire in Canterbury.

A fire service spokesman said the injured person suffered burns to their arm.

It's now thought nobody was home when a Mangakino home went up in flames this morning.

Eleven cordons are still up and 150 firefighters on the ground in Christchurch.

A quick thinking member of the public put out a car fire during the pride parade after an Air New Zealand truck caught fire.

Emergency services are tackling a house fire in Hamilton.

Mike King's appearance at the piggery near Levin helped in the campaign to ban on sow crates.

While cordons on the Port Hills have been relaxed, Civil Defence says non-residents are still banned from the area

Hero chopper pilot Steve Askin was a man who valued serving others, father Paul says.

A building at a paintball park south of Auckland that's been gutted by fire will probably have to be demolished.

The thickest thieves ever have burnt an ATM they were trying to rob... And everything inside it.

Amazing aerial footage shows the extent of the fire damage in the Port Hills.

'Nothing suspicious' found after fire razes Long Bay College technology block.

Firefighting operations could continue at Port Hills for up to a month.