Fire and Emergency was called shortly before 4 this afternoon and arrived to find the home well involved in flames.

It appears nobody was inside the building, and a fire investigator is now there.

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17 Oct: The public is being asked for sightings of a man possibly involved in a homicide, in a town near Palmerston North

16 Oct: Police have found a woman's red station wagon - as they investigate her death in Pahiatua yesterday, west of Palmerston North

15 Oct: A man's due to appear in Tauranga District Court today, charged with the murder of a six-month-old baby earlier this year, in the Manawatu-Whanganui region's Foxton Beach

13 Oct: Police will have a visible presence across Hawke's Bay over the next few days - with two gang tangi taking place

11 Oct: Taranaki coach Neil Barnes believes his first five-eighths Josh Jacomb is not ready for the All Blacks yet, heading into tonight's NPC quarter-final against Hawke's Bay in Napier

09 Oct: An eighth person has been arrested over a 15-year-old's stabbing death in Napier in May

07 Oct: An investigation's begun into the death of a baby girl in Wairarapa last Thursday

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