Nearly $2 million in community development block grants will go toward housing projects and child care subsidies in five Island towns, the state announced Thursday.

An attentive all-ages audience came to the Oak Bluffs Tabernacle Thursday night to hear Gregory Skomal give a talk called Seeing Deeper Into the World of the Great White Shark.

Beach Road in Vineyard Haven is a busy place these days and not just because of summer traffic.

Three people were injured, one critically on Thursday night when a Vineyard Transit Authority bus struck two pedestrians near the Church Street bus stop in Edgartown.

Tonight’s bright full moon appears so close to the red planet Mars. The two, rising in the east after sunset, are in the zodiacal constellation Capricornus. You won’t find a brighter pair for a while, especially because of Mars.

Mars is stunningly bright, because it is close. The planet is 36 million miles away, the closest it has been in 15 years. A rare event, for the remainder of July, now through August, Mars is even brighter than Jupiter.

Martha’s Vineyard Community Service’s annual Possible Dreams auction celebrates its 40th anniversary on Sunday at the Winnetu Oceanside Resort in Katama.

From the middle of May until Columbus Day, you can find Hugh and Jeanne Taylor standing side by side cooking breakfast at the Outermost Inn.

The Manuel F. Correllus State Forest on Martha’s Vineyard remains one of the six strongholds in Massachusetts for the whippoorwill.

Last year officers in the Oak Bluffs department had a baby a month from March to May, and then two arrived in July. Now they are toddlers.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $336,200 for the business week ending on Friday, July 20, 2018.