Martha's Vineyard

A 22-year-old woman from Martha’s Vineyard has died after an accident Saturday night.

A U.S. Coastguard helicopter rescued an injured fisherman 60 miles off of Martha’s Vineyard on Friday, officials said. The call came in around 6 p.m. from a commercial fishing vessel named Persistence, according to a Coast Guard news release. A 50-year-old member of the crew was showing stroke-like symptoms.  A Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopter was able to safely hoist...

Health officials in Martha’s Vineyard are investigating a coronavirus cluster that apparently stemmed from a wedding on the island earlier this month and has sickened several people. According to the Martha’s Vineyard Boards of Health, the virus was spread by wedding guests who left the island the morning after the event. Eight people connected to the event have tested...

The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head and the town of Aquinnah have presented arguments to the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals for the tribe’s planned bingo hall. The tribe is trying to build the bingo hall on the western end of Martha’s Vineyard under the Indian Gaming Rights Act and argued Monday that it should not be subject...

The Martha’s Vineyard estate of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is being sold to a pair of nonprofits that plan on turning the property into conservation land open to the public.

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.

Sixty-five cats were removed from a home this week on Martha’s Vineyard, and a breeder will be charged with two counts of felony animal cruelty in the case, according to the Animal Rescue League of Boston. A search warrant was executed at the Edgartown home of Jennifer Winsper, 48, on Wednesday, the animal rescue said. The more than five dozen…

On Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, the coronavirus has been a concern for months. But Memorial Day weekend, the start of the summer season on the islands, brings a stark reminder that all of it has changed. Nantucket would typically be hopping this weekend for Figawi, the sailboat race from Hyannis to the island. But this year, there’s no race,...

Restaurants and shops on the islands of Massachusetts will be much less busy this summer.

Leaders on Cape Cod and the Islands are telling seasonal residents and visitors to stay away after two COVID-19 deaths were reported on the Cape this week.

The state’s first offshore wind project remains in a holding pattern, waiting for a key federal environmental review to wrap up. Vineyard Wind last month said that if that review from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management isn’t done by the end of August, “it would be very challenging to move forward” with the current plan.

In just a few months, construction begins on the first offshore wind farm in Massachusetts waters. And as the push for green energy continues, so does turbine blade testing in Boston.

Actor Bill Murray was reportedly involved in a dispute Wednesday with a photographer at a restaurant on Martha’s Vineyard. Peter Simon, 71, was taking photos at Lola’s for The Martha’s Vineyard Times when Murray allegedly assaulted him, according to a police report obtained by the Boston Globe. Simon reportedly claimed that someone turned him and slammed him against a door,...

Actor Bill Murray was allegedly involved in a dispute at a restaurant in Martha’s Vineyard.