Block Island

Federal prosecutors say two Rhode Island men who touched off a needless and expensive ocean search-and-rescue effort when they fired maritime distress flares to celebrate a friend’s wedding have agreed to pay $5,000 each to settle the case. The U.S. attorney’s office in Providence says the Coast Guard and the town of New Shoreham spent more than $100,000 combined...

Three-time Olympian Elizabeth Beisel has taken on a new cause

Bill Speth has been fishing off the coast of Block Island for years. And while he’s seen whales, he never imagined he’d get quite so close to one. The Montauk, New York, fisherman said while he was out on the water just south of Block Island on Sunday, a whale hit his boat, puncturing it and sending his friend...

A Montauk fisherman who said he’s been fishing off the coast of Block Island for years describes an encounter with a whale that put a hole in his boat and sent his friend overboard.

Rhode Island native and Olympic swimmer Elizabeth Beisel plans to swim from the mainland to Block Island this summer raise to money for cancer research. The Saunderstown native said in a statement this week she’s teaming up with Swim Across America to make the roughly 12-mile swim on Aug. 20. She said she wanted to help after a family member…

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The past week was another busy one for shark sightings. Sharks were spotted off the coast of Maine, off Hampton Beach in New Hampshire, off Nantucket, and mostly swimming and feeding off Cape Cod. This summer, sharks have been spotted further north than in recent years, in areas like New Hampshire and southern Maine, where a woman was fatally attacked…

A total of four great white sharks were reported in the Chatham area. There was also a confirmed sighting that closed Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro, and another that closed Newcomb Hollow Beach. Coast guard Beach in Truro was also closed Saturday due to a shark sighting.

July and August are prime shark season in New England, especially off Cape Cod. But already this summer, numerous sharks have been spotted even further north, in areas like the North Shore of Massachusetts and even southern Maine, where a woman was fatally attacked by a great white last month. So far, there have been over 250 shark sightings off…

The Reigels, vacationing on Cape Cod from Pennsylvania, spotted several sharks Saturday about a quarter mile off the coast of Nauset Beach in Eastham.

Researchers at the Atlantic Shark Institute detected four great white sharks Wednesday in the waters near Block Island, Rhode Island. Seven acoustic receivers detected the presence of the sharks, which range in length from 8 to more than 13 feet, in the waters near the island, the institute’s officials said in a news release. The sensors were installed as a…

We have a nice cool start in New England, but all eyes are looking south. Dorian continues to generate historic rainfall, hurricane winds and storm surge, and dozens of tornadoes in North Carolina overnight. Outer rain bands of Dorian that may arrive in southern New England by sunset today.

The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for two fishermen who were reported missing after their boat capsized off Block Island, Rhode Island. The Coast Guard made the announcement Wednesday after failing to find boat owner Oscar Diaz and his nephew John Ansay.

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching near Block Island for two missing fishermen. The Coast Guard says it received a distress call after the fishing boat Mistress capsized Tuesday morning off Block Island, Rhode Island. The boat started taking on water near the nation’s first offshore wind farm.

A new study finds Massachusetts has the potential to put gusty winds to good use in the form of wind energy.

The switch over to wind power on tiny Block Island is attracting polarizing responses from residents.

It’s a tiny island with a big claim to fame.