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.

A Wairarapa man who died after being severely beaten overnight was viciously assaulted by people who knew him, police say.

Five people have been admitted to hospital following two separate crashes in the lower North Island overnight.