Two 19-year-old women will appear in court after a blaze at a Hamilton school on Friday.

Emergency services were called to Devonport Wharf last night after a woman was injured

A Coromandel man had a lucky escape after his car was almost fully submerged into a river

Fire crews rushed to the house on Henwood Rd in Mangere shortly after 5pm.

A car crashed through Porirua Fire Station and only stopped when it hit a fire truck

The most likely cause was that the wildfire was deliberately lit, say fire investigators.

A 3ha fire is within 20m of an inaccessible house in the Far North.

Seven people escaped serous injury after a Waikato garage fire this afternoon.

A child spent the night in the ceiling space of Starship Hospital.

Firefighters are being injured when hospitals and rest homes request they lift patients.

The blaze at a house was "well involved" when crews arrived.

Staff from the nearby Backbenchers pub rushed to help after man set himself alight.

Police source says fire that killed young mum and newborn was deliberately lit.

Black Ferns lock Eloise Blackwell and prop Becky Wood went back to work this week.

Kiwi and New York firefighters walk up Auckland's Sky Tower on 16th anniversary of 9/11.

Fire chief says students were "lucky" the power lines weren't live when they fell.

The home that went up in flames is believed to be rented out on AirBnB.

Twenty fire-fighters were sent to battle the blaze on Tweed St in Roslyn.

Firefighters say they had a bit of a chuckle with they arrived and found the "fire".

One person has died in a forestry accident near Gisborne today.

The roof of the Titirangi War Memorial Hall is on fire.

Woman earlier reported dead fights for life after hour of CPR.

Woman arrested after overnight hostage drama in Upper Hutt.

A boarding house operator has been fined $1,500 for failing to install fire alarms.

"It's just one of those bizarre things," a Fire Service spokesman said.

Ponsonby supermarket evacuated after burglar alarm fills the shop with smoke.

Emergency services are at a house fire on Ormiston Rd, South Auckland.

A car smashed into a Gull petrol station on Hewletts Rd, Tauranga.

Temperatures fell to about -4C on Sunday night as the woman counted 26 cars drive past.

Emergency services are on their way to a two car crash in Howick.