With Memorial Day and the summer season on the horizon, Vineyard vacation rental agents are seeing an unfamiliar sight: availability in July and August. 

The Massachusetts Property Insurance Underwriting Association, which runs the FAIR plan for Bay Staters struggling to get insurance from other companies, is now allowing customers to get at least partial insurance with them for properties worth more than $1 million. 

The first potential project with a municipal employee preference will also head to town meeting floor this year, with Island Housing Trust asking if the towns are willing to help pay for a teacher housing project in West Tisbury.

Aimee Cotton is now facing a manslaughter charge after the young boy she was babysitting last week died at Massachusetts General Hospital.

The largest seasonal airline at Martha’s Vineyard Airport will not start its summer schedule until June, with flights to Washington, D.C. beginning on June 12 and flights to New York starting on June 26.

The Responsible Offshore Development Alliance (RODA) and the Texas Public Policy Foundation have both filed petitions with the country’s highest court, arguing that the Department of Interior did not follow the law when approving the project. 

Aimee Cotton, 40, pleaded not guilty in Edgartown District Court on Friday to assault and battery on a child with injury and reckless child endangerment. 

A group of homeowners in Oak Bluffs is asking the town’s select board to turn the dial down on a popular bar’s music.

Three homeowners on Stonewall Beach have proposed an ambitious plan to move their houses inland while also bolstering the steep, deteriorating cliff.

A plan to cut about 175 acres of white pine trees in the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest that is backed by Vineyard ecologists and firefighters was met with stiff resistance from Islanders this week.