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A suspected arson attack destroyed a home and damaged a business in West Auckland early yesterday.

An Auckland nurse, whose husband has been convicted of trying to murder her 12 years ago, may get compensation.

The families of two men wrongly jailed for arson are still angry at the officer in charge of the case.

Coromandel town police officers are baffled as to why anyone would want to set fire to their small station.

An apprentice mechanic whose dream car was torched in Masterton on Saturday has been swamped with offers of parts from all around the country.

Police today apologised for arresting a Tokoroa woman more than five years after she lost her job when she was wrongly charged with conspiracy to commit arson and two years after the police watchdog found the investigation was botched.

A prisoner set fire to her cell bedding at Christchurch Women's Prison last night, causing extensive damage and injuring two prison guards who came to help her.

A lesbian couple have been targeted by arson and had anti-gay slurs graffitied on their property.

The Ministry of Education has stepped in make sure an Auckland primary school, torched by arsonists on Friday, can reopen on time.

A clean-up began yesterday at a primary school left in ruins after a fire swept through a third of its buildings on Friday.