A person has been taken to hospital after a fire in a block of flats in Invercargill overnight.

Three generations of the family of a prominent New Zealand refugee advocate have died in fatal house fire in South Auckland earlier today.

After extensive fire damage the Greymouth fishing boat Te Aroha has risen from the ashes and is back trawling off the West Coast.

Children are feared dead after a blaze in a South Auckland home claims three lives.

A vehicle carrying gas bottles was driven into the headquarters of the Australian Christian Lobby in Canberra last night.

A neighbour says she can't get the sound of cries out of her head after a house fire killed three people in South Auckland this morning.

Burglars snuck into the destroyed two-story house and stole the only salvageable items including a TV, a cabinet and food.

A "body" discovered at a South Taranaki property completely destroyed by a fire yesterday was in fact the remains of an animal - but the search for the property's owner continues.

Firefighters attended a blaze on a traffic island in a busy Auckland city road this afternoon.

Firefighters battled a blaze that gutted a two-story house in Christchurch this evening.

A house was engulfed in flames in South Taranaki today.

Firefighters are working in warm conditions to douse the fire at Te Hauke, south of Hastings.

There were two house fires last night - both ignited around midnight.

It is not known if anyone is inside a burning house in Christchurch.

A caretaker's shed and boiler room are on fire at Riverhills Primary School.

Four fire crews and a command unit are battling a blaze in a classroom at Redwood Primary School in Christchurch.

Fire broke out in the bedroom of a Pukekohe house this morning.

A child playing with a lighter is believed to have started the fire that destroyed a house in Otumoetai yesterday. The fire service

Karl Henderson found himself locked outside his burning shop when he realised his dog Stella was stuck inside. Wife Tracy had woken

Firefighters battling blaze at Wellington school.

The wildfires that tore through East Tennessee killed 14 people last week and left nearly 150 others injured.

A Wellington home has been gutted by fire overnight in a suspected arson.

An abandoned house at Runanga went up in smoke early today - the fourth building fire in the area in a month.

Police suspect arson after six car fires in Christchurch overnight.

A blaze that destroyed an empty West Coast home is being treated as suspicious.

Firefighters went into a burning Invercargill home, fearing a person was trapped inside.

A caravan at a West Auckland campground has been engulfed by fire in suspicious blaze.

Six fire crews are battling a blaze in the roof space of a sawmill in Rotorua.

California officials fear up to 40 people have been killed in a massive fire that happened Friday night during a concert inside a building in Oakland.

At least nine people died in a blaze that broke out during a party in a converted warehouse in the San Francisco Bay Area,