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Fire and police investigators are looking into the cause of a fatal house fire in New Plymouth in the early hours of this morning

24 December 2025

Emergency services were called to the home on Trelawney Crescent around 2.30am and found one person dead inside.

A scene examination's ongoing.

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27 Feb: A man will appear in Napier District Court today facing a charge of the murder of Rotorua woman Sharlene Smith

27 Feb: It's expected to be months before storm-ravaged highways on the Coromandel Peninsula are fully restored

26 Feb: An IT outage affected radiology departments in Auckland and Northland hospitals this afternoon

26 Feb: Two women will appear in court today - and a man next month - in relation to a reported shooting in Waikato's Te Kauwhata, north of Huntly

25 Feb: A 24-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving in relation to a fatal crash on State Highway One south of Taupo

24 Feb: A car driver's died after a crash between a truck and a car about 11am on Waikato's State Highway 2 - near Mangatawhiri

24 Feb: A woman's been arrested after a string of retail thefts across Thames in the past month

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