A new proposal for the controversial home renovation on South Water street emerged Thursday after previous plans drew neighborhood pushback.

The M/V Nantucket had a failure of a reduction gear pressure switch Thursday night, according to Steamship general manager Bob Davis.

July is the last month we have Venus in the western sky after sundown. The Earth's closest and bright neighbor is appearing lower in the western sky each night. We watched Venus on Tuesday night, the night of the fireworks and noted the planet no longer commands the height in the western sky of just a few weeks ago. Venus is sinking in our western sky. Each night ahead, Venus appears closer where the setting sun, set previously. Venus is also closer to the Earth. Right now Venus is only 45 million miles away.

While studying at Princeton University, Jay Lagemann squeezed in every art history class he could between his load of mathematics courses.

From baseball player Roberto Clemente to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to Mother Goose, Featherstone's newest exhibition tells a range of Latinx stories.

Phyllis Vecchia and her creative drama class recently ended another year of instruction.

Twenty-five years since its founding as an arboretum and 65 years after Polly Hill planted her first tree, the Polly Hill Arboretum remains a world-class horticultural institution.

A bay scallop farming study is one of several projects in Dukes County funded by new state grants, aimed at bolstering the local shellfish industry in a time of climate change.

Oak Bluffs resident Charles (Adi) Uchendu was one of several Massachusetts firefighters who went to Quebec to help Canada with the out-of-control wildfires.

The Edgartown Yacht Club Regatta celebrates its 100th birthday this summer, growing from a single day of racing in 1924 to a five-day series with more than 100 boats registered to compete this year. The regatta begins on Wednesday, July 12.