Kevin Foster, a 55-year-old Cambridge resident, was one of several people at the West Tisbury south shore beach last week who got caught in a riptide, officials said.

The Martha’s Vineyard home that had been embroiled in a legal battle between a national whiskey brand and the company’s creditors was sold late last month over the owners’ objections. 

Though the new state building code calls on towns to conduct inspections on short-term rentals, town officials say the wording of the rules and logistical hurdles for understaffed building departments mean few inspections actually take place.

The Lagoon Pond drawbridge was closed for several hours Tuesday afternoon due to a mechanical issue with the bridge gates.

The Vineyard Transit Authority bus driver union said it voted Thursday to begin a strike as early as next week after rejecting management’s latest contract offer. 

Kevin Agatep was arraigned in Edgartown District Court on Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to assault and battery, causing serious bodily injury, connected to an alleged fight outside of the Ritz on July 17.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking information about a person who entered a fenced off area along Edgartown Great Pond and injured a flightless piping plover chick.

The sale of a Martha’s Vineyard home associated with beleaguered whiskey brand Uncle Nearest could be on the rocks as litigation around the company’s debt continues.

A Goldman Sachs executive who illegally chopped down nearly 20 trees at his Katama compound must still comply with a town order to restore them, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection ruled earlier this month.