Coral-Ellen Burrows should be planning a party. Instead, her family will gather at her graveside. Her life was cut short in a crime that brought New Zealand to a standstill.

A man has admitted setting fire to a house he was building with his ex-partner, dousing it in kerosene and watching it burn as he drank wine on the lawn.

A group that savagely bashed a disabled man who had been the subject of a false rape rumour will each spend at least 17 years in jail.

An 87-year-old World War II veteran is distraught after coming home to find his Featherston house broken into and his television gone.

A pensioner who says his 70-year-old wife was "driving him up the wall" ended up in court after punching her following a row over dinner.

The family of a man slain in his Featherston bedsit have described him as part of the fabric of his community.

Two men wanted in connection to the death of a Featherston man are being hunted by police.

Members of the Featherston community are mourning the loss of Glen Jones, a supermarket worker who died after a violent assault at his home at the weekend.

Featherston man who owes Inland Revenue more than $170,000 has been ordered to repay just a fraction of his debt.