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'Walked down the aisle in pain': Jess Quinn calls for amputee service reform

The influencer and health advocate struggled for five years with unworkable prosthetics.

'Tears of frustration': Amputees call for overhaul of NZ limb service amid delays

Some amputees face weeks of pain with ill-fitting or defective limbs.

Hunt for motorcyclist after fatal hit-and-run: Police get several responses

Johnson suffered critical injuries after he was hit on a pedestrian crossing.

Woman lay dead in flat for two days, care worker assumed she was sleeping

Music played as Ruth Finau lay dead in her small flat in South Auckland.

On The Up: The Hawke's Bay disability fitness programme making national waves

'If it’s that this big in Hawke’s Bay, what would it be elsewhere?'

'Inappropriate restraint': Disabled woman found with socks taped to hands

Her carers said the socks were to stop the woman from chewing on her hands.

'Discarded': Mass grave excavation uncovers Ireland's dark history of child burials

A 2021 report found 9000 children died in Ireland's mother-and-baby homes.

Disability care workers angry at suspension threat

NZ's largest Māori-based provider of disability care is at war with the PSA union.

Rural community well represented in King's Birthday Honours

This year’s honours acknowledge contributors to New Zealand’s rural sector.