While the number of vacation home rentals has exploded on Martha’s Vineyard since Covid, the proportion of lodging tax revenue from hotels grew sharply in the last two years, now accounting for about a third of lodging tax receipts Islandwide.

In the face of a persistent housing crunch, a controversial state law designed to spur development of affordable housing is once again being considered by Island housing advocates as key to meeting a critical need.

George Bailey needs your help — again.

The typically raucous chatter of seamen was more nervous than usual at the Allen's Tavern in old Holmes Hole (modern Vineyard Haven), where Islanders gathered to hear news of a restive colonial mainland.

When my father Doug Ewing died from cancer in 1995 I was not yet five years old.

Since early 2020, the Martha’s Vineyard community has lived and worked through the Covid-19 pandemic.

Edward T. Vincent of Edgartown took a few minutes on Wednesday to look back over the long course of years.

Chicken Alley is placing its holiday haul front and center for its first annual Thriftmas Holiday Shop.

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation has begun working on potential solutions for Five Corners, the traffic-plagued, flood-prone intersection in Vineyard Haven.

A witness saw smoke coming from a work van parked at 79 Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road around 9:15 p.m. Wednesday. The flames then spread to a second van and then to the building.