Midday Report Essentials for Monday 12 August 2024

On today's episode, hundreds of people including a helicopter are searching for a five-year-old boy who's been missing in a rural area south of Gisborne since yesterday afternoon, the Government is pressing ahead with plans for congestion charging on roads, promising to introduce legislation before the end of the year, city leaders in Tamaki Makaurau are digesting a report cards of sorts for Auckland showing our largest city is slipping as a great place to live compared to similar cities around the world, and Many women in Aotearoa may have been labelled a tomboy at some point in their life - or used the term to describe themselves - but a new study shows there are some traumatic connections to the word.