The budget amendment would exempting all port towns from having to cover a Steamship Authority pandemic-related budget shortfall.

On a sun-splashed day with calm seas, the M/V Nantucket sailed into the newly-repaired wharf, the first SSA vessel of the summer season in Oak Bluffs waters Wednesday. It was also a day for delays.

The Steamship Authority has settled a legal dispute with a Rhode Island shipyard that was contracted to take the freight ferry Katama into drydock this year.

In the wake of its busiest weekend this year, the Steamship Authority is set to open the Oak Bluffs terminal Wednesday and reintroduce its full summer fleet.

Repairs to the Oak Bluffs Steamship Authority wharf are on track to be completed by June 15, a week ahead of schedule but nearly a month after the terminal’s normal opening, boat line governors learned Wednesday

Sparse ferry traffic, sleepy harbors, quiet streets and an unprecedented pandemic: the Vineyard experienced its slowest Memorial Day in recent memory.

The Oak Bluffs terminal building was abruptly closed Friday afternoon after the report from a shoreside employee for the ferry Seastreak.

Traffic is climbing and so are revenues, but as Memorial Day approaches the Steamship Authority is still projecting a massive year-end deficit.

The Woods Hole ferry terminal is open again after it was closed overnight for cleaning and disinfecting.