A plan by the Dukes County sheriff to build a 140-foot emergency services tower in Oak Bluffs won unanimous approval from the Martha’s Vineyard Commission Thursday night. The tower is one part...

Rainy Day, the year-round gift shop in Vineyard Haven, changed hands last month from owner Heather Kochin to her business partner Bob Scammell and his wife Melissa Scammell. The Main Street staple...

Little House Cafe, the popular year-round restaurant on State Road in Vineyard Haven, was listed for sale last Friday for $1.5 million. Co-owners Jenik Munafo and Merrick Carreiro opened the cafe in...

In the pre-dawn hours of Saturday morning at Bend in the Road Beach, a beacon of LED candles carried by more than 200 people shined through the darkness. So did a small bonfire and a Banner of Hope...

During a visit to Ireland earlier this year, John Murray joined in a gathering of 200,000 people across the country for the Darkness Into Light Walk, an annual event to promote suicide prevention. He...

The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School fall sports teams have seen mixed results over the past few weeks, with some teams asserting their dominance in Cape and Islands league play and...

Lola’s restaurant in Oak Bluffs was sold to new owners this week for $2.3 million. Longtime owner Kathy Domitrovich confirmed earlier in the week that she planned to close on a sale of the...

Chilmark selectmen voted Tuesday to upgrade the retirement policy for Tri-Town Ambulance paramedics. Six full-time paramedics will be moved from group one to group four retirement plan, granting...

When he was 17 years old, Jack Ryan would take a pad and pencil down to a salvage yard beneath the Brooklyn Bridge in New York city and draw the cityscape that towered above him. Over the heap of...

At the end of the Oak Bluffs ferry wharf early Sunday morning, seven-year-old Cameron Erich felt a tug on the end of his fishing line. He gripped the rod tightly, planted his feet and started reeling...