Women riding in style are being encouraged to show off their goods at a new car show being put on in a bid to help women's health.

A man asked a 12-year-old walking home to get inside his ute in Ranui - the latest report of strangers approaching children in the area.

Few details are available about the terrifying abduction and sexual assault of an 11-year-old boy in West Auckland last week.

Police are investigating after a video emerged on social media showing a group of teens beating a girl at a West Auckland train station.

Hunt continues for man who abducted and sexually assaulted an 11-year-old boy in West Auckland.

It's hoped at least $5000 is raised for the family of the 11-year-old boy abducted and sexually assaulted in an horrific four-hour ordeal.

Police are continuing to support an 11-year-old boy who was plucked off a street and sexually assaulted in West Auckland, as the community rallies to bring his attacker to justice.

Three days after an 11-year-old boy was plucked off a street and sexually assaulted in West Auckland, his attacker remains on the loose.

While child sex offenders are often attracted to children, that is not the only cause for their offending, a forensic psychologist says.

Police went public about the abduction and sexual assault of an 11-year-old boy in West Auckland in the hopes locals can help catch the offender.

The horrific four-hour abduction of an 11-year-old boy in Ranui will have parents worried about how to protect their children from predators.

Criminologist Greg Newbold said the fact the boy was abducted was very uncommon.

Police say the boy got off a train at Ranui Station and started walking to his home when he was abducted by a man in a grey van.

More than 156 homes are without power in Auckland after two faults affected about 2000 households overnight.

Marae, women's refuges and other social agencies have won funding to house 3000 homeless families and individuals a year in the latest

Police have concerns for missing Raniu man Wilhelmus 'Bill' Staijen due to a medical condition.

Police have concerns for a 74-year-old dementia sufferer who went missing from the Ranui area yesterday.

No one was injured in a fire which destroyed a garage in Auckland overnight.

Police investigating last month's shooting death of a Ranui man have confirmed they are looking at a gang link to the murder.

West Auckland police will today examine the house where a man was killed in Ranui.

The steady life in sales and prices started in the central Auckland suburbs over a year ago and has now spread across the new supercity. But as Bruce Morris reports, it's still tough going out in the provinces.

Rail bosses say the platform at the scene of a fatal accident wasn't designed for passenger trains.

Thousands of fans who took the train to last week's 'family friendly' Rugby World Cup opening celebrations had a horrifying night they would rather forget.