Several Christchurch streets are blocked off this afternoon after a serious house fire. Emergency services were notified of ...

A series of scrub fires have sparked evacuations outside Christchurch this afternoon, with one structure already destroyed.

Clean-up efforts are underway on a property in Canterbury's Norwood after a vegetation fire. Fire and Emergency New Zealand ...

A person had been found dead following a serious house fire which blocked off several Christchurch streets. Emergency ...

The recruits graduated from their 12-week training course at a ceremony held at the Fire and Emergency New Zealand National ... were Deputy Chief Executive Service Delivery Design Steph Rotarangi ...

Over the next week, fire restrictions will be tightened across ... Tim Mitchell says while the weather might be cooler around New Zealand on Saturday, it will be a temporary reprieve.

Open fires are prohibited in Napier and Hastings in an order made just hours before a hillside blaze which went right to the ...

At least six people have died and others remain unaccounted for following a fire in a hostel, New Zealand's prime minister has told local media. Emergency services were called to the four-storey ...

Long a model for climate action, New Zealand is taking heat for letting up on its goals to decarbonize. The island nation in the South Pacific Ocean is moving toward climate adaptation rather than ...

New Zealand police have launched a homicide inquiry into a fire at an emergency housing hostel in Wellington, where at least six people were killed. Officials said up to 20 people were still ...