George Block

A volunteer firefighter said his crew initially had a blaze at a Middlemarch property under control yesterday afternoon, but strong winds and a lack of water resulted in the home being left a husk.

Fire crews from Weston and Oamaru put out a fire after a kiln caught alight at building supplier Great Southern this morning.

Nazi iconography etched into a Corstorphine car was one of two overnight incidents reported to police today.

Facial recognition has been the talk of the country this week. George Block looks at whether the practice is widespread and the potential fish hooks of this high-tech surveillance.

A two-hour road policing sting on the Southern Motorway caught one motorist travelling at 168kmh in a mad dash to the airport, alongside 17 other infringements yesterday.

Fire crews attended two suspicious car fires overnight in Otago and Southland within an hour of each other.