Arson

A man has been charged with burning down his multimillion-dollar luxury home in the Bay of Islands.

A 71-year-old man has been arrested and charged with arson following a spate of forest fires near Nelson.

Revellers at a party are believed to have set off two flares that started a large scrub fire in Northland today.

A man who set fire to his car in a central Wellington pedestrian mall on election day last year has pleaded guilty to arson.

Dunedin police have made a plea for help from the public after nine suspicious fires were lit in the city at the weekend.

Los Angeles Police Charlie Beck said he is confident authorities have their man after a person of interest was detained in connection with dozens of arson fires.

A fire that gutted a million-dollar Dunedin house yesterday is being treated as a suspected arson.

An arsonist swept through the Hollywood area under the cover of dark early on Friday (local time), torching vehicles whose flames ignited nearby houses, including one once occupied by Doors frontman Jim Morrison.

A 35-year-old man has been arrested in relation to five fires at the Foxton Racecourse over the past month.

The Dunedin CIB has distributed fliers to about 90 Caversham households warning a possible arsonist or arsonists may be at work in the area, following another suspicious rubbish fire in College St at the weekend.