Expansion plans for the historic Shearer Cottage in Oak Bluffs remain undecided, as longtime family owners attempt to balance a need for economic survival with environmental impacts.

Mariam Raqib does not take the power of a tree for granted. When she was a child growing up in Afghanistan, she remembers a country of great landscapes, trees and bushes.

The winter high school sports season is set to begin, with teams getting ready for action during recent scrimmages.

Wastewater discharge from urbanization to the north and east of Edgartown Great Pond has been identified as the primary source of increased nitrogen loading in the pond, according to a new study by a Woods Hole scientist.

Chorus director Peter Boak took the stage at the Old Whaling Church Saturday and welcomed the audience with two words: “We’re back.”

A medically equipped bus offering free vaccines and booster shots will return to the Island next weekend, the Island boards of health announced.

With the impact of the new Omicron variant still unknown, cases of Covid-19 on the Island are back on the upswing, with 48 more people confirmed positive for the virus in just five days.

In April 2013 an overflow crowd packed the Chilmark annual town meeting to cast a historic vote on what by then had been dubbed the big-house bylaw, a zoning bylaw aimed at regulating a perceived trend of super-sized homes.

A house-size bylaw similar to one adopted in Chilmark eight years ago is in the works for West Tisbury, with a public forum expected early in 2022 and a potential town meeting vote in the spring.

Matthew Heineman's latest documentary film, The First Wave, goes to the front lines at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens during the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic.