Rebecca Fox

Dunedin School of Art sculpture student Lily-Jean Redgrave is ready and waiting to show off her end-of-year project at an exhibition of second-year students' sculpture at the Underground Market in George St, Dunedin.

Otago residents might experience a sense of deja vu this week as again fantastic weekend weather gives way to hail, wind and showers.

Hearing a baby cry makes people uncomfortable and new research has revealed it also stresses out man's best friend.

It is hoped up to two-thirds of Otago and Southland's doctors practices will sign up to a new regionally focused clinical network.

Competitors in the ''5 cans for 5km'' run and walk to raise food for the St Vincent de Paul foodbank for Christmas, head up Butts Rd at Logan Park, in Dunedin, last night.

October was a cool and dry month in Otago.  Niwa's monthly climate report shows while temperatures were within 0.5degC of average for most areas of the country, there was considerable variability due to the abnormal southwesterly flow. 

A rope-entangled humpback whale seen off Taiaroa Head, Dunedin, yesterday is possibly heading south, off the Otago and Southland coast.

The volunteers who deal with the 50,000 people who visit Sandfly Bay on Otago Peninsula annually to view the wildlife were named winners of the 2014 Coastal Otago Conservation Awards at a ceremony in Dunedin last night. Rebecca Fox asked some of the volunteers about their work in the reserve.

Finding a 1920s-style ''spartan office'' turned out to be the hardest location to find for the Hollywood film being shot in Dunedin - until a scout saw Allied Press managing director Sir Julian Smith's office.

With a twinkle in her eye, Daphne Galloway says she never thought she would make 100 years old.

For more than 60 years a Bob Shepherd Menswear sign has hung in George St, but in a few weeks' time it will be taken down for good.

Desperate Southern District Health Board sonographers worried public ultrasound services could become a thing of the past have voted to strike for five days later this month.

Any effect from a proposal to finish Bluff oysters in Otago Harbour will be ''less than minor'', a consultant's report says.

There has been a 20% increase in bird numbers on Otago Peninsula in areas where possum eradication work has been done.

The Otago Regional Council may have posted a $5.1 million surplus, about $2 million more than budgeted for, but it is not money in the bank, council finance and corporate services director Wayne Scott says.

The Otago Regional Council will probably be more active, more generous and more interventionist than before under the direction of its new strategic plan, Cr Michael Deaker says.