A live baby great white shark was brought into Menemsha harbor by a local fishing boat Tuesday morning. And though the fish was only five feet in length, the fact that it was a great white caused...

A 54-year-old pilot was killed when a plane he had built himself crashed south of the Vineyard on Saturday afternoon. Timothy L. Crawford of Idaho Falls, Ida., was piloting a single-engined, two-...

Striped bass is one of the Island's favorite seasonal fish. And its season in fish markets and restaurants is about to close for another year.The state Division of Marine Fisheries announced this...

Ask most kids where their eggs, beef and milk come from and they'll tell you the grocery store. Ask the same question of the young people who have spent a week at Herring Creek Farm and they'...

They came by the thousands. The word at the annual Feast of the Holy Ghost was that on Martha's Vineyard, everyone can be Portuguese for a weekend.The two-day festival in Oak Bluffs brought the...

Two days of celebration begin tomorrow in the annual Feast of the Holy Ghost. Islanders of Portuguese heritage and their friends will party, dine and parade in a festival whose traditions date back...

At Morning Glory Farm, the strawberries are gone and the peas are in. The farm hands are filling baskets with beets, carrots and scallions. And the potatoes are doing well.Dan Athearn of Morning...

A 22-year-old inmate at the Edgartown House of Correction will be arraigned on Thursday on three charges of escape. David Luce, who was captured by local police after he was discovered missing from...

This Fourth of July parade was clearly the biggest. Last night's fireworks were vivid and colorful. And those words can also be used to describe a parade that was so large that it took nearly two...

It was one of the town's best-kept secrets, and hundreds of coconspirators kept it quiet for months. Retiring fire chief Richard H. Clark Jr. was treated to a surprise party on Saturday. The...