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Rachel Sadler

Rachel is a digital news producer for Newshub based in Auckland. Originally from Invercargill, she studied film and media studies at the University of Otago and received her postgraduate journalism qualification from Auckland University of Technology. She joined the Newshub digital team in 2019.

Rachel is keenly interested in health stories - particularly rare diseases - and also enjoys covering breaking news.

Email: rachel.sadler@wbd.com

Follow her on Twitter: @rachelsadlernz

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Revealed: Shocking number of Kiwis behind on key health screenings

Brianna Carson, who has multiple chronic illnesses, wants to inspire other sick Kiwis who want to get back into sports.

'Try me': Triathlete plagued by chronic illnesses hopes to inspire other sick Kiwis

Jemima Thompson.

Te Whatu Ora defends lack of care for debilitating illness as another NZer eyes expensive overseas surgery

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, United States President Joe Biden, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

'Paid too much'?: How salaries of NZ politicians compare to their overseas counterparts

Taylor Doyle has had two surgeries this year to treat her compressions.

'Rather be dead': Another Kiwi with 'misunderstood', debilitating condition calls for urgent change to health system

'The hardest thing': Foster mum speaks out on difficulties families face getting fetal alcohol spectrum disorder diagnosis and support

Sarah Wills has recently undergone life-changing surgery in Germany after she couldn't get treatment in New Zealand.

Woman forced to fly to Germany for life-changing surgery after NZ doctors continually dismiss excruciating condition

'The last place you'd want to visit': The sorry state of Auckland CBD - and the plan to bounce back as tourists return

Watch: Should we get rid of daylight saving? Newshub took to the streets of Auckland to find out.

A time zone of its own: The town refusing to turn its clock back with the rest of New Zealand

Sarah Wills is fundraising to travel to Germany for surgery after New Zealand doctors continually dismissed her condition.

'This country will let me die': 20yo fundraising to get life-changing surgery in Germany after NZ doctors continually dismiss her condition

Related video: Returnees already in MIQ won't be released until weekend despite Kiwis in Aussie being welcomed back isolation-free.

MIQ returnee shocked to be prescribed 30 anti-anxiety pills when she'd only asked for one sleeping tablet

Related video: One principal wants unvaccinated teachers to help with online learning.

'Fobbed off again': Teacher aide says catching COVID will leave her with no income as Omicron surges

Related video: A public health expert is calling on schools to give students more options than skirts so they can kick a ball or bike to school more easily.

Back to school blues: Why uniforms are so expensive and how to alleviate some of the cost

'They threatened to stab me': Auckland building manager says Kāinga Ora ignoring him over tenants' 'terrifying' behaviour

Related video: The Government announces Auckland's transition out of COVID-19 settings.

'Significant distress': How physiotherapists and many patients are 'suffering' being largely unable to operate during level 3

'Risky environment': Child health expert concerned opening early learning centres at level 3 could spread COVID-19

Watch: Some hospitals are having to cancel surgeries to cope with the spread of RSV.

Explained: The infectious virus spreading among NZ children and the symptoms parents should look for

Watch: Starship director of provider services Dr Mike Shepherd addresses the shortage.

'Undervalued and underappreciated': Starship nurses 'commonly end up in tears' as understaffing takes its toll

Māori studies professor explains why white supremacy is 'very normalised' in NZ, needs to be taken seriously

'I didn't believe it': Fit, healthy Kiwi's warning to others after discovering bowel cancer during prenatal tests

'A constant state of alertness': How to cope with the mental fatigue of living through a pandemic

'Blew my mind': Greta Thunberg doco director on her 'unbelievable' rise to climate action icon

Key to Life Charitable Trust founder and ambassador Mike King said letters from those who were suicidal or affected by suicide were used in the research.

New suicide prevention research aims to help Kiwis understand why people take their own lives

A former employee told Newshub he doesn't think the NZCare workers are racists but have grown to accept a racially-divided culture.

'My identity was stripped': Workplace bullying victim speaks out against 'institutionalised racism' at workplace

NZCare employees say the ability to perform their jobs, self-confidence and capability to move forward into other work were impacted.

'I really, really struggled': Workplace bullying victims speak out against 'toxic' company behaviour

Lifewise street navigator James Sturch with Johnny, a member of the homeless community who is now housed in a motel.

Meet the Kiwis helping the homeless get back on their feet

Latest from Rachel Sadler

English physicist, engineer, and inventor Professor Archibald M Low made several predictions about the future.

Life expectancy of 200 years and wireless wars: The 1923 predictions experts made about 2023

Police are urgently seeking the whereabouts of 25-year-old Lachlan Bowles.

Active shooter alert issued as police hunt for gunman in Western Australia

The woman has been charged with driving with excess breath alcohol.

Woman caught 'extremely' over drink-driving limit on school pick-up run

Watch: The driver often uploads videos of themselves driving at speed on Auckland motorways.

'Illegal and unacceptable': 'Degenerate' driver's behaviour slammed by police

Related video: A group of Dunedin scientists are turning food waste into food worth eating.

NZ scientists trialling lab-grown fruit

Watch: Willie Jackson and David Seymour on their parties' crime and justice policies.

'Not how a humanitarian Govt should operate': Jackson and Seymour trade barbs over justice policies

Watch: Here's the latest.

Marokopa fugitive Tom Phillips charged with aggravated robbery, aggravated wounding after Te Kuiti bank robbery

Rachel Sadler

Ruapehu Crater Lake heating up again

Related video: Expert says fall in monthly mortgage arrears indicates Kiwis adapting to the inflationary environment.

Housing affordability unlikely to return to pre-COVID-19 levels - BNZ

Rachel Sadler

'Surprise bounce': Major bank shocked by NZ economic indicator

Rachel Sadler

Health and Safety

'Not good enough': Orchard warned after three of teen's fingers amputated in horrific workplace injury

Watch: Brian Tamaki takes dig at 'career politician' Winston Peters.

'Winston's had his day': Brian Tamaki takes dig at 'career politician' Peters

Watch: Furious man in Donald Trump T-shirt shouts at Chris Hipkins during Auckland walkabout.

'Where is he?': Furious man in Trump T-shirt lunges towards group accompanying Hipkins at market walkabout

Related video: Largest ever New Zealand drug smuggle busted, year's worth of meth hidden in maple syrup bottles.

Two more people in multi-million-dollar family drug smuggling enterprise sentenced

Watch: Chris Hipkins says Freedoms NZ is 'determined to disrupt' the election campaign after Christopher Luxon's press conference was hijacked.

'Anti-democratic': Hipkins says Freedoms NZ 'determined to disrupt' election campaign after Luxon's press conference hijacked

Rachel Sadler

'Suffered a tremendous amount': Baby died after doctor's, nurses' series of failures - report

Watch: Chrsitopher Luxon spoke to media on Sunday.

'I've been really clear': Luxon spells out stance on abolishing abortion rights, Māori wards

Rachel Sadler

Two people arrested after flat tension boils over

Related video: Why some Māori voters are strategically swapping rolls and what you need to know ahead of Election 2023.

Local Government

'Must be stopped': Seymour slams 'abhorrent' consultation on Auckland Council Māori seats option

Rachel Sadler

MoH's puberty blockers' evidence brief widening to include mental health, well-being outcomes

Chris Hipkins.

Youth vaping crackdown: Labour promises to cap number of stores, enforce harsher penalties for underage sales

Honour, 15, has been missing since last week.

Missing Persons

'Concerns for her safety': Police searching for missing Auckland teen

Person in custody after running across busy motorway attempting to flee crash

Watch: Prime Minister Chris Hipkins speaks on the removal of James Wallace's knighthood.

Convicted sex offender James Wallace stripped of knighthood

Rachel Sadler

Elderly Auckland man dies in hospital choking on food after health workers fail to follow pureed food plan

Billy is in hospital in Bali after the accident.

'Be prepared': Aussie mum's warning after son horrifically injured in Bali scooter accident

Labour would make it compulsory for all schools to teach financial literacy by 2025.

'Too important to be left to chance': Teaching financial literacy would be compulsory in schools, Labour promises

Related video: Lotto's Lucy Fullarton tells AM about Kiwis' chances of winning Powerball.

One ticket wins Lotto's $37m Powerball draw

Tomislav Nemes.

'Mummified look': Decomposed body of Gold Coast man may have sat in home for more than a year - police

Related video: A relative of Marokopa fugitive Tom Phillips believes missing children Jayda, Maverick and Ember are safe - and he will hide for as long as he can.

Missing Persons

New details suggest Tom Phillips may have set up campsite with children - police

Rachel Sadler

'Here comes the next blast': More cold weather on the way for NZ

Related video: Seek country manager Rob Clark speaks to AM about data revealing how fast wages are really growing.

Median weekly, hourly wage increases outstripping inflation - Stats NZ

Watch: Labour announces it will increase paid parental leave for partners by four weeks if re-elected.

Labour promises to increase paid parental leave for partners

Related video: The results of the latest Newshub-Reid Research poll.

'Give it up': Vandals deface multiple political billboards over weekend

Watch: Chris Hipkins speaks at his post-Cabinet press conference.

'A wedge in the community': Hipkins celebrates 'significant milestone' as final COVID-19 restrictions removed

Western Springs College.

'Seeping into the carpeting': Auckland school closes over 'major' sewage leak

Watch: Police at the scene.

Missing Persons

'Our precious has been found': Missing west Auckland toddler located 'safe and well'

Related video: New Zealand's median weekly rent hit a record high of $610 in May.

'Unbelievable': How this tenant convinced landlord to lower rent increase by $45 a week

The misrepresented MDMA.

Warning issued after substance misrepresented as MDMA hospitalises people in Hawke's Bay

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Missing Persons

Police seeking motorbike sightings as hunt for Marokopa fugitive Tom Phillips continues

Rachel Sadler

Motorbikes impounded, person arrested after convoy of gang members cross through Auckland for ex-Hells Angels president's funeral

Rachel Sadler

Revealed: The shocking number of Aucklanders who use their phones while driving

Related video: An Auckland grandmother is afraid to leave her house after the fatal shooting at Taurima Reserve.

Arrest made in Auckland homicide case as police investigate fatal shooting

Watch: MetService's latest weather warning video.

Heavy snow warnings issued as overnight temperatures set to drop into negatives

Related video: National house prices nearing $900,000 after more value declines.

NZ house prices still falling but at slower rate

Rachel Sadler

'Fittingly wintry feel': Snow on the way for some as 'unsettled southwesterly flow' moves across NZ

Watch: Infrastructure NZ says the Government's announcement was positive and ambitious - but it's wondering how it's going to be built.

'Grossly irresponsible': Greens skewer Govt's plan for Auckland harbour crossing road tunnels

Related video: Earlier in 2023, the unruly tourists saga hit the stage as an opera.

Member of infamous unruly tourist family accused of causing new trouble in UK

Watch: Nick Truebridge's report into the latest findings of the Royal Inquiry into Abuse in Care.

Children's cries for help at 'hell on earth' school, centre ignored by Catholic Church, State for decades - Royal Commission

Watch: The latest weather update from MetService.

'The situation may worsen': Snow closing roads as wintry blast sweeps through