A nostalgic look at historic Auckland.

Police dogs and puppies in training with handlers. Photos/supplied.

Three people were trapped in their home after a tree fell onto the property during a short sharp weather bomb in Auckland this morning. There have also been reports of mini tornadoes across the region and power is out to about 1500 homes.

Eight-year-old Anjalee is spending 90 days in quarantine on Niue as she waits for her boarding pass to Auckland, where she will eventually live in Auckland Zoo.

More than 30,000 people ran, walked, wheeled, and were pushed or carried from Auckland’s CBD to St Heliers for the 43rd annual Ports of Auckland Round the Bays today.

For the next two weeks, across Auckland, more than 100 world class shows - local and international - will astound and entertain.

The friendly festival is as much about the music and art as it is about the wild and wacky fashion. Photos / Jason Burgess

Crowds watch as floats take to Ponsonby Road during the Auckland Pride Parade. Ponsonby Road, Auckland.

Baby T-Rex from the Walking with Dinosaurs show visits Birkenhead Primary School. Walking with Dinosaurs will be showing will be at Vector Arena on March 5th-8th. 12 February 2015.

The best shots by Herald photographers at the Auckland NRL Nines.

Fans on day 2, at the Dick Smith NRL Auckland Nines rugby league tournament, held at Eden Park in Auckland.

We go behind the scenes with the Warriors at the Auckland NRL Nines 2015. Michael Craig, Brett Phibbs and Dean Purcell captured all the action.

Fans flock to Eden Park for this year's NRL Auckland Nines

Photos from St Jerome's Laneway Festival at Silo Park in Auckland.

Red Bull Drift Shifters is a motorsport event that has today transformed the streets of Auckland City into a giant pinball inspired drift track.

Tens of thousands of people flocked to the centre of Auckland this afternoon for the 81st annual Farmers Christmas Parade.

Mr Lett finally secured a win after coming second in last year's Auckland Marathon, last year's Wellington Marathon and the Christchurch Marathon in June. "You have to have a little bit of luck in marathons, who's kind of got it on the day, luckily I had just enough for the last five kilometres and I'm glad it wasn't a kilometre longer," he said.

It may have seemed like a good idea at the time, but a team of West Aucklanders who used ingenuity over common sense to shift a fridge now have the police on their trail. But they are not the first to deliver furniture in precarious ways.

Tens of thousands of Aucklanders could remain without power for hours to come after two fires damaged Transpower's Penrose substation early today.

Fog covering Auckland this morning.

Gale force winds battered Auckland in ferocious storm last night, littering city streets with trees and cutting power to tens of thousands.

Birkdale locals came together last night to honour Blessie Gotingco's memory with a candlelit walk through the Auckland suburb.

The $1.4b Waterview Connection is the largest roading project ever undertaken in New Zealand.

Dozens of triathletes took part in the Men's Barfoot & Thompson World Triathlon in Auckland today. New Zealand triathletes Nicky Samuels and Kate McIlroy failed to meet the qualifying standard for the Commonwealth Games in today's opening round.