The recent passage of the short-term rental tax law has helped spur a renewed effort to create a housing bank on Martha’s Vineyard.

Birders spread out across the Island on Saturday for the Christmas Bird Count, tallying 16,026 birds divided among more than 100 species.

Breaking a stalemate over post-employment benefit funding and money for a new track, the regional high school district committee approved a $22 million operating budget to start the new year.

Breaking a stalemate over post-employment benefit funding and money for a new track, the regional high school district committee approved a $22 million regional high school operating budget.

The Yellow House will stay gray until the end of next summer, according to a small change in the property’s lease agreement made at the Edgartown selectmen’s meeting last week.

An American who was detained in Moscow last week on a spying charge is the brother of a Vineyarder.

For the first time in 42 years, Joseph E. Sollitto Jr. descended the steps of the Edgartown courthouse as something other than the clerk of the superior court.

Vineyarders plunged into 2019 on Tuesday, as many indomitable souls took part in the annual tradition of washing away the previous year with a dip in 40-degree waters.

The Island’s championship summer collegiate baseball team is mired in a court dispute with its parent Futures Collegiate Baseball League over plans to switch to another league.

The historic Edgartown Inn was sold to Milton-based real-estate investor and hotelier Charles C. Hajjar for $5 million.