Leighton Heikell is a journalist for Newshub, focusing on local news in Wellington, New Zealand. With a keen interest in politics, crime, and human interest stories, Leighton covers a range of topics that impact the Wellington community.
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Recruitment agencies are seeing an unprecedented jump in job applications, while there's also a big drop in the number of jobs being advertised.
By: Leighton Heikell
"I'm hoping the lessons that should've been learned on 16 May 2023 are not lost."
By: Leighton Heikell
Warning: This article discusses suicide. The trial of former Justice Minister Kiri Allan is set to begin today after she pleaded not guilty to charges relating to a car crash in Wellington last year.
By: Leighton Heikell
1 minute ago Related video: Political Editor Jenna Lynch's report after the crash. Credits: Newshub
Former Justice Minister Kiri Allan pleaded guilty just before her trial was due to start and was convicted of two charges of careless driving and refusing to accompany police.
By: Leighton Heikell
Watson is appealing his double-murder conviction in the Court of Appeal.
By: Leighton Heikell, Molly Swift
Health NZ has denied there is a hiring freeze on recruiting graduate nurses after the nursing union called the agency out for going back on their agreement.
It comes after a week of failures that raise questions about the country's aging infrastructure.
By: Leighton Heikell
Two people have been identified alive in the water off Gisborne as authorities frantically search for three men who went missing on a fishing trip yesterday.
Exactly two years after the battered body of teenager Ariki Rigby was shoved into a car and set alight, police are making a fresh appeal to find out who killed her.
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