Pretend the Earth’s atmosphere is a bathtub. On one end of the bathtub is a spigot, and out of that spigot pours all of the carbon dioxide that humans put into the atmosphere, ranging from car...

Faced with steep financial losses and the threat of closure at the Windemere nursing home facility, the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital has made an offer on a 26-acre property in Edgartown for a new...

An enforcement arm of the U.S. Department of Labor has fined the United Parcel Service upwards of $400,000, citing a catalog of workplace safety violations at the multinational shipping chain’s...

Longtime Sweet Neck Farm oysterman Jack Blake has a new business partner, with selectmen voting to add resident Dan Gilkes to Mr. Blake’s aquaculture lease at their meeting on Monday. Mr....

A major expansion and redevelopment project at the Martha’s Vineyard Shipyard in Vineyard Haven has cleared a key early hurdle with the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act (MEPA), which...

The Cape and Islands district attorney said Tuesday that a body found on the beach at Menemsha over the weekend has no connection to the sea scalloper that sank last month and left three New Bedford...

The Martha’s Vineyard Commission closed a public hearing on a proposed takeout window at the Barn and Bowl Bistro in Oak Bluffs Thursday night after peppering bowling alley owners with...

According to data collected by the six Island boards of health, there were 92 deaths on Martha’s Vineyard in 2013. One year later, there were 130. Five years later, there were 189. By 2030,...

Work has begun to remediate a heating oil spill that occurred just off Main street in Edgartown this past summer, with a construction crew fencing off two parking spaces and a portion of the sidewalk...

Menemsha pond is officially open for scalloping — despite some spirited protestations from the Aquinnah town administrator. At their meeting on Tuesday, Aquinnah selectmen voted unanimously to...