A group of long-serving KFC workers are being forced out of their jobs during a restructure which a union claims is deliberately targeting workers with disabilities.

Hinewehi Mohi established Auckland's Raukatauri Music Therapy Centre after seeing how music helped her severely disabled daughter Hineraukatauri, who has cerebral palsy.

As founder and a trustee of The CatWalk Spinal Cord Injury Trust, Catriona Williams is focused on funding research.

Sophie Pascoe trains about 26 hours in six days a week, has won a bundle of gold medals at the highest level and is among the country's best-known sports women.

An elderly man with arthritis in his fingers was denied help pumping petrol at a service station despite signs saying the station would assist the disabled.

Minnie Baragwanath has been labelled "disabled" since she was a teenager.

In October 1989 a scooter accident changed Lee Warn's life forever - but not in the way you would expect.

Like most young people, Travers Brown wants his independence.

A Northland case poised to set a legal precedent nationwide for the classification of Segways could drag on until the end of the year.

Booking a last-minute taxi is impossible for Aucklanders confined to wheelchairs, a Herald on Sunday survey has revealed. And when they do get a taxi, they are charged extra.

Damien Grant writes about how caring for a disabled relative must be a great burden on a family.

The Law Society has raised serious concerns about controversial new legislation which would prevent carers of disabled family members from taking legal action.

Bank bigness may be an over-rated quality, according to financial research firm, Canstar, writes David Chaplin."If a bank does start to bleed seriously, a government transfusion will not be guaranteed."

Airlines - and able-bodied passengers - have a real economic incentive to ensure disabled embarkation operates smoothly.

Prime Minister John Key has defended the urgent passing of controversial legislation which restricted who could be paid for caring for disabled family members.

On any number of counts, the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Amendment Bill represents a particularly sorry piece of law-making.

A bill which allows people who cared for disabled family members to get paid by the Govt has passed into law a day after being introduced amid protest about its narrow scope, lack of consultation, and possible discrimination.

People who look after their highly disabled adult family members are at last in line to be paid by the Government - but only the minimum wage.

A disabled passenger says he was barred from boarding a flight after he missed check-in by three minutes when his electric wheelchair broke down.

Auckland Transport has had to ticket one of its own vehicles after an employee parked illegally in a mobility space.

The daughter of a disabled woman who starved herself to death said the media spotlight on her mother's actions deepened her resolve to die.

A flight from Auckland was delayed when one of Air NZ's "gold elite" passengers refused to give up her front-row seat to accommodate a wheelchair-bound woman.

Special-needs students will begin the new term with another potentially disruptive change in taxi companies used to take them to and from school.

Neelusha Memon loves pushing herself to the absolute limit.

A young woman who happened to use a wheelchair was heading to work only to discover the hard way that the path was inaccessible.

A disabled Papamoa man twice denied access on local buses is taking his case to the Human Rights Commission.

Special-needs students have been placed at risk by the Government's decision to switch taxi companies used to transport them to school, parents and a principal say.