Officers are ready to enforce the ban on gang patches, the Assistant Police Commissioner says.

A Christchurch-based money lender has been fined $200,000 for charging customers as much as 182.5 percent interest on short and medium-term loans.

A man who lived in his parents' home after their deaths - on the understanding he paid the bills and maintained it - has been evicted for failing to keep his side of the bargain.

Thousands of people are at Te Papiouru Marae in Rotorua to farewell Sir Robert Gillies (Bom) for the final time.

Survivors and advocates have criticised the decision to hold the government's abuse in care apology in Parliament today, as it's meant hundreds have missed out on seeing it in person.

For Māori survivors, who make up the majority of an estimated 200,000 people abused, what was inflicted on them has created long-lasting impacts on their sense of identity and belonging.