Top scientists at the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and fish conservation advocates are reporting a significant increase in the numbers of swordfish swimming in the North Atlantic....

Chilmark residents interested in owning a home may find the going a little easier since voters at a special town meeting Monday night approved a significant rewriting of zoning bylaws to create new...

Lagoon Pond has millions of baby bay scallops. On Tuesday afternoon, David Grunden, shellfish constable for Oak Bluffs, was out moving some of them around. There is a gold mine of baby bay scallops...

The Martha's Vineyard Land Bank has agreed to purchase one of Chilmark's quintessential homesteads - the Hollis Burton Engley home off Middle Road.Preserving the nine-acre property has been a...

Rainstorms that crossed the Island last month were exactly what the Vineyard needed. After a September that was the wettest month of the year so far, lawns are once again lush and plants are looking...

Some of the winners in the 57th annual Martha's Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby aren't even fishing. Thanks to the generosity of fishermen and derby organizers, senior citizens...

The son of an Edgartown commercial fisherman is this year's winner of the 21st annual Kids' Derby, held Saturday at the Oak Bluffs Steamship Authority Wharf. Adam Castro, 6 years old, caught...

The 57th annual Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby began Wednesday without a hitch. Brendan Langley, the weigh master, was dressed for the ordeal of weighing in each of the four species of fish: striped...

The 57th annual Martha's Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby starts tomorrow morning. For some of the Island's anglers, it can't start fast enough. Fishermen started talking about...

Taygeta was one of more than 60 boats participating in last Sunday's 25th annual George Moffett Memorial sailboat race. Named after one of the seven stars in the small star cluster Pleiades,...