Race Point Beach

It’s shark season on Cape Cod, and even the Massachusetts State Police are getting in on the action. A police helicopter went out on shark patrol this week, bringing along New England Aquarium scientist John Chisholm, and they spotted a shark about 50 yards from Provincetown’s Race Point Beach, officials said. The animal was near a group of seals...

A Massachusetts State Police helicopter flew over Race Point Beach on Cape Cod Wednesday to look for sharks and found this one near a group of wary seals.

People are returning to the beaches of Cape Cod, and so are the sharks. Years of research help us understand their behavior.

A shark was spotted swimming in three to four feet of water on a beach in Provincetown on Sunday. Tamzen Tortolani McKenzie captured video of the shark swimming back and forth after she saw its fin breaching the water’s surface at Race Point Beach. The shark, estimated to be about 12 to 14 feet long, swam around the area for…

A 12 to 14 foot shark was spotted Sunday at Race Point Beach in Provincetown in water that was just about three to four feet deep.

Ogunquit Beach in Ogunquit, Maine, and Race Point Beach in Provincetown, Massachusetts have been listed on TripAdvisor’s Top 25 Beaches. The popular travel company compiled a list of the highest-rated beaches in the country by travelers. In a review under Ogunquit Beach, Krbnsol wrote “Our favorite New England beach. Great for walking, soaking up the sun, people watching, and swimming…

In recent years, great white shark sightings have become all the more common on Cape Cod. Already this year, more than 150 of the sharks have been spotted off of Massachusetts. Most of the sightings are on the outer Cape, from Chatham to Provincetown. But there have also been many sightings in Cape Cod Bay, where research scientists have been...

Over the past week, there were 17 shark sightings off Cape Cod, including seven over the weekend alone. According to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app, great white sharks were spotted in Cape Cod Bay and off Truro, Eastham, Orleans, Chatham and Monomoy Island.

It was another busy weekend for shark sightings, with 15 great whites spotted off the coast of Massachusetts on Saturday and Sunday combined. That’s the same number of sharks that were spotted the weekend before. According to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app, seven great white sharks were spotted off Provincetown, one off Truro, two of Wellfleet, one off...

Nauset Beach and Race Point Beach were closed to swimming temporarily on Sunday due to shark sightings.

A shark sighting off Provincetown, Massachusetts, has forced officials to close Race Point Beach.

Could there be a connection between the beloved horror classic “Jaws” and a lingering murder mystery on Cape Cod? Fantasy and horror writer Joe Hill, son of author Stephen King, says an extra in one of the film’s scenes could be the woman found brutally murdered on a Cape Cod beach. The “Lady of the Dunes” case has puzzled investigators...

A Cape Cod whale watch company captured footage of a pair of great white sharks feeding on a dead minke whale on Friday morning.