Latest from Featherston

'I wish something had been different'

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.

Man torches house, drinks while it burns

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.

Group jailed for disabled man's murder

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.

War vet distraught over break-in

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

Fire survivors 'lucky' neighbours say

Pensioner bashed wife over dinner

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.

Featherston victim's family devastated

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

Two men hunted over Featherston death

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

Featherston reeling after fatal assault

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.