Cape Cod

If you’ve had one too many staycations recently, and you’re dreaming of warmer weather and your feet in the sand, you’re not alone! “This is the busiest we’ve been in 20 years, absolutely,” said Kimberly Robbins, who owns Chatham Vacation Rentals with her husband, Richard. The Robbinses manage about 100 properties in Chatham, Massachusetts, and they say they are...

The 2021 summer travel season is shaping up to be busy.

The sun has returned for much of the region — except Cape Cod — to close out the weekend. Ocean-effect snow showers continue to impact the outer Cape due to a northwest wind. Elsewhere, Sunday is bright but chilly with highs in the low 30s. Light wind will settle across the area as a dome of high pressure takes control…

Today (Sunday): Sunny, pleasant wintry day. Highs 30-35.
Tonight: Increasing clouds. Lows in the 20s.
Monday: Cloudy start. Breezy. Burst of snow, then rain early afternoon. Highs 35-40.

Our pattern gets quite active for next week as multiple systems launch a wintry mix across New England, so we hope you can enjoy the quiet weekend.

Saturday: Variable clouds. Highs in the 20s.
Sunday: Morning snow showers, afternoon clouds. Mostly light accumulation. Highs around 30 degrees.

The ocean ripped homes in Sandwich, Massachusetts, from their foundations as a nor’easter hit New England.

The slow start to Massachusetts’ coronavirus vaccine rollout has caused frustrations statewide, but people on Cape Cod say they need more options. Seventy-eight-year-old Paula Yanover is worried about her health and her husband’s, and she has done everything she can to try and book vaccine appointments on Cape Cod. “Very hard, because it’s requiring hours,” said the Hyannis resident....

Many are frustrated with the lack of vaccination sites on Cape Cod.

Communities along New England’s coast were devastated by this week’s nor’easter.

More than a dozen flags honoring people of service were damaged just a few weeks after they went up in Barnstable, Massachusetts.

The North Chatham Post Office has been deemed a COVID-19 cluster after four employees have tested positive for the virus within the last several days.

The owner of a Maine boat carrying four fishermen that sank off Cape Cod last fall has asked a court to declare it is not at fault. The owner of the 82-foot Emmy Rose wants a Maine federal court judge to declare that it is not liable for damages in the sinking. The owner, Boat Aaron and Melissa Inc., said…

Two new COVID-19 testing sites on Cape Cod will be open by next week with the ability to test over 500 people a day and put a “dent” in what Sen. Julian Cyr and others have described as a testing desert in Barnstable County. But Cyr and other Cape Cod officials said Tuesday that the testing to become available in…

Two new COVID-19 testing sites on Cape Cod will be open by next week with the ability to test over 500 people a day and put a “dent” in what Sen. Julian Cyr and others have described as a testing desert in Barnstable County.

A group of 30 endangered sea turtles are being treated for hypothermia and pneumonia in Louisiana after a sudden cold spell nearly froze them in New England waters, caretakers say. The Audubon Nature Institute’s Coastal Wildlife Network announced this week that it took in the reptiles at a New Orleans rehabilitation facility after they were brought on a rough ride…

An investigation into what caused a fishing boat carrying four Maine fishermen to sink off Cape Cod will likely take weeks or months, the Coast Guard said Friday. The boat sank off Provincetown on Monday when it was en route to Gloucester, Massachusetts. Members of the Maine fishing community have been raising money for the families of the men lost…

Cheryl Smith has been reunited with her class ring, 44 years after she lost it while swimming with friends at the beach.

A 23-year-old Stoughton woman died in a car crash on Cape Cod Thursday afternooon. A Nissan Sentra driving east on Route 25 in Bourne went of the road near Exit 3 around 3:15 p.m., according to state police The driver was the only person in the car. She was brought to Tobey Hospital in Wareham, where she was pronounced dead,…

Despite valiant efforts from veterinarians with the New England Aquarium, the rare loggerhead sea turtle found on a Cape Cod beach Friday has died. The 350-pound sea turtle was found on a beach in Truro Friday and taken to the New England Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Hospital in Quincy. The aquarium shared the news of its death on Facebook Tuesday...