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 are renewing appeals for anyone who may have seen the grey van used to abduct an 11-year-old boy on Thursday afternoon in West Auckland.

The abduction and sexual assault of a boy, 11, has left parents and schools in Ranui on edge.

Firefighters have rescued a baby locked in a car at Auckland's St Lukes mall this evening.

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.

15 fire crews are attending a large fire at a two-storey commercial building in Glendene, West Auckland.

A west Auckland secondary school has hit a wall in its attempt to expand into a full secondary and bilingual facility.

A pregnant woman is injured in a car crash in Glen Eden this morning.

Doctors say 2-year-old Chelsey Cheng has only a 20% chance of reaching her 5th birthday.

Tim and Fiona Noble have lost all possessions and the home in which their children grew up - and grandkids loved to visit - has been destroyed by fire.

Babies don't follow plans and little Esme Keene is no exception. She arrived before her dad managed to get her mum to hospital.

Firefighters work to cut free a person trapped in their vehicle in a west Auckland street.

Initial fears people may be inside soon passed.

A college student who began a renowned restaurant in his dorm room is hosting a pop-up dining experience tomorrow.

Police and fire are on their way to Titirangi in West Auckland - to a report of a car on its roof.

Emergency services have cordoned off the public toilets in Glen Eden.

A woman charged with murder following the "girls' day out" stabbing has appeared in court.

Police are still puzzled by an alleged kidnapping from Sylvia Park in September.

It was a wild day of weather for the upper North Island yesterday, but what will today bring?

Firefighters were called out to an Auckland house this morning after a child got its head stuck in a deck.

The man was found slightly dazed and confused but uninjured.

Would-be millionaires are flocking to Lotto stores around the country for tonight's big draw.

A man has been seriously injured while climbing a tree after it came into contact with power lines in west Auckland this afternoon. Emergency

Parents recall the day their 5-year-old boy died at Piha - a place he loved for the freedom it gave him.

The killer who strangled a 13-year-old girl in Auckland in 1976 now appears to have got away with her murder.

The child who died in a "tragic accident" at Piha on Saturday was found on rocks.