With three North Atlantic right whales were seen south of Martha’s Vineyard this week, mariners are advised to be on the lookout for the critically endangered animals. NOAA Fisheries announced...

At a quiet town election Wednesday, Chilmark easily passed all spending articles on a ballot that featured no contested races. Voter turnout was 15 per cent, with 148 of 990 registered voters...

Two Island men were arraigned Thursday morning in Dukes County superior court on charges of distributing drugs on Martha’s Vineyard. Alexander W. Carlson of Edgartown was arraigned on a charge...

Rescuers have been working to free an entangled female North Atlantic right whale, one of the many that have made their seasonal arrival in waters south of the Vineyard and in Cape Cod Bay to feed....

Gus Ben David’s Edgartown home is a well known way station for orphaned or injured birds and animals. Owlets, injured osprey, cold-stunned sea turtles, wayward otters: all are welcomed to...

Edgartown voters raced through a lengthy town meeting agenda Tuesday night, easily approving costly wastewater improvements, a new hangar at the Katama airfield and a $36.8 million budget. “...

Edgartown voters said no to fluoride in town water and no to a new Katama airplane hangar and re-elected Arthur Smadbeck to the board of selectmen in the town election Thursday. In Oak Bluffs Greg...

A hotly-debated proposal to build a new Tisbury school, a first step toward banning mopeds, and plenty of spending is on the agenda tonight as annual town meetings convene in four Island towns. The...

Edgartown moderator Philip J. (Jeffrey) Norton Jr. was presiding over his 10th annual town meeting in 1985 when voters took up an article to address town salaries, including his own yearly stipend....

An incumbent running on his 24-year record of service to the town will face off against a political newcomer promising change in a two-way selectmen race at next week’s Edgartown election....