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The NDIS will surpass the annual cost of the age pension, or the national defence budget, or Medicare. Before long, it will cost each taxpayer an average of about $4000 a year to fund it.

The legendary Southern Railway, as well as the many other railroad lines of the Southeast, will highlight the Oct. 29 Heritage Day at East Tennessee State University’s George L. Carter

People with disabilities and their families can be assured the ECHO Society, a non-profit serving individuals with disabilities in Mayerthorpe and Whitecourt,…

Community members and area organizations were recognized at the Employment Recognition Luncheon, sponsored by the Harford County Office of Disability Services and Commission on Disabilities.

Flax new HRMC Foundation director; FSA employee Grinstead recognized; Janzing KHA worker of year; Stroberg reappointed to KWA; Peoples Bank branch opens

Nearly 4,000 Michigan State University students and employees live with a disability, which may range from loss of sight or hearing to psychiatric or mobility issues.

Missed details and deadlines surrounding the management of the Treatment and Recovery Center of Douglas County led the county administrator to consider bringing in an out-of-state for-profit management company to assist local nonprofit behavioral health leaders, she said.

Kansas officials said a study addressing the long wait times disabled Kansans face to receive government assistance will take two years.

By Suzanne Perez  A new law requiring Kansas schools to get parental permission before surveying students’ personal attitudes or beliefs has put lessons on hold in many schools. The law doesn’t go as far as a proposed Parents’ Bill of Rights that Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed last spring. But it’s rai ...

A doctor who works with adaptive athletes after suffering a spinal cord injury of his own nearly 10 years ago receives $1 million from the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation.