Cape Cod

Police are searching for the driver in a deadly hit-and-run crash on Cape Cod.

Police are investigating a fatal hit-and-run crash that occurred on Tuesday morning in Yarmouth, Massachusetts.

Police are investigating a fatal hit-and-run crash that occurred on Tuesday morning in Yarmouth, Massachusetts. The crash was reported on Winslow Gray Road between Swan Lake Road and Joshua Baker Road. The victim was discovered by a police officer on routine patrol around 7:30 a.m. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. He was identified as Alexander…

Sea turtle strandings on Cape Cod are picking up after a slow start to the season, experts at the New England Aquarium said Monday. The aquarium has so far cared for almost 120 of the animals at its Quincy turtle hospital, the vast majority of which have been endangered Kemp’s ridley turtles. But scientists have also treated eight green turtles…

The National Transportation Safety Board on Wednesday released its preliminary report for the Oct. 31 plane crash off Cape Cod which resulted in the death of the pilot. The single engine Piper 28 was flying from Pennsylvania to Chatham, Massachusetts, when it was reported missing off Nauset Beach in Orleans. Its debris was found four days later on Nov. 3,…

Fire officials are investigating two suspicious fires that broke out just feet away from each other on the Cape Sunday night. The first fire started on Fresh Holes Road, where a car was completely engulfed in flames shortly before 11 p.m. The second fire was in a vacant house in the same neighborhood, about a block away, shortly after 11:30…

A police officer shot himself in the leg during a training session at a firing range on Cape Cod Wednesday morning, officials said. The officer, whose name was not released, was taken to Cape Cod Hospital from the firing range on Depot Road in Harwich after the incident at about 10:30 a.m., local police said. The Carver Police Department confirmed…

U.S. Coast Guard veteran John Janedy fell on hard times and was living in his truck, but now he has a kitchen to make meals, along with all of the other things many people take for granted like a roof, a bed, and heat. The 70-year-old has taken up residence at a 5-bedroom home on Cape Cod, along with...

Slowed by the pandemic, neighborhood opposition and a court battle, the Cape and Islands Veterans Outreach Center spent five years to trying to build the five-bedroom home in Dennis. It opened in February.

A plane that went missing and was believed to have gone down off Cape Cod was located by dive teams on Thursday, but the pilot has not been recovered, Massachusetts State Police said.

A plane that went missing and was believed to have gone down off Cape Cod was located by dive teams on Thursday, but the pilot has not been recovered, Massachusetts State Police said. The fuselage was reportedly located sometime Thursday during one of 9 dives off of Chatham, state police said. That came a day after partial landing gear was…

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health issued fish consumption advisories for five Cape Cod waterbodies on Tuesday after detecting high levels of chemicals. The advisories, which differ for each pond based on the chemicals’ levels, provide guidance to people who catch and consume freshwater game fish caught in those areas, according to a DPH statement. They only apply to native…

The U.S. Coast Guard on Tuesday suspended its search for a missing plane believed to have gone down off the coast of Cape Cod. Two ships were scouring the area Monday night, and on Tuesday morning additional aircraft joined the search. But the Coast Guard announced that it had suspended its active search at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. Coast Guard...

A plane is believed to have gone down off the coast of Cape Cod after taking off from Pennsylvania.

The U.S. Coast Guard and local harbormasters are searching for a plane that may have crashed off the coast of Cape Cod.

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a plane that may have crashed off the coast of Cape Cod.

The U.S. Coast Guard and local harbormasters are searching for a plane that may have crashed off the coast of Cape Cod. The downed plane — a white and beige Piper 28 aircraft — was reported missing off Nauset Beach in Orleans, Massachusetts. A male pilot was on board, the Coast Guard said. The original call was made to the…

Eversource and National Grid said that power has been restored for most Massachusetts residents who were left in the dark after a powerful nor’easter slammed the state Tuesday night into Wednesday. Around 1,575 customers were still without electricity statewide Sunday afternoon, according to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency. That’s down from a high of 700,000 outages across the state during…

Hundreds of thousands remained without power Wednesday night after a nor’easter lashed the region.

A powerful nor’easter left major damage in parts of Massachusetts and left hundreds of thousands of people in the dark for what could be days.