Desiree Young, the mother of Kyron Horman, said Friday that she will be holding a news conference next week to make an “important announcement” about the search for her missing son.

“I will be announcing something exciting that we are doing to bring more awareness to Kyron’s story and keep up the search for him,” she said in a public Facebook post.

Kyron Horman of Portland went missing June 4, 2010, and the resulting search and rescue operation was the largest Oregon has ever seen. Kyron was 7 years old when he was last seen at Skyline Elementary School in Portland. No arrests have ever been made in his disappearance.

The case has drawn national attention over the years, but investigators have failed to draw any conclusions despite several detailed searches around the area. The most recent was a 2017 search in the West Hills that yielded no new information.

Young will hold the news conference Tuesday at the Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue Station at 11646 N.W. Skyline Blvd. in Portland. She’ll speak at 9 a.m., then take questions from local media, she said.

Read our previous coverage of the Kyron Horman case here.

Kyron Horman's photo is displayed at Kyron's Wall of Hope.

--Jamie Hale | jhale@oregonian.com | @HaleJamesB