The Martha’s Vineyard Commission opened a public hearing Thursday on a nearly-completed house in Vineyard Haven that has become a lightning rod for neighborhood opposition.

In March, the shelter moves to two churches in Edgartown — St. Andrew’s Church and the Federated Church of Martha’s Vineyard — each of which will host guests for several nights in a row.

Steamship Authority engineers are working to iron out some unexpected wrinkles in the performance of the new freight ferry, M/V Barnstable.

From its humble beginnings 23 years ago as Massachusetts’s first rural health clinic, Island Health Care has grown to treating 2,200 Islanders a year.

Educators, hospital workers and social services volunteers were among the more than 30 Islanders who turned out at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church Monday evening for a presentation on constitutional rights by immigration attorney Rachel Self.

If approved, the 100-apartment Green Villa project would be one of the largest housing developments in Island history.

A century-old Oak Bluffs bungalow with a historic past has grown too run-down to be saved, its owner and her architect told the Martha’s Vineyard Commission last week.

A proposed mixed-income housing development near Veterans Memorial Park in Vineyard Haven is under fire from neighbors, who are asking Tisbury officials not to issue a permit for the project.

Martha’s Vineyard is close to losing one of its two free-standing medical centers, potentially leaving more than 1,000 Islanders without a primary care doctor.