Edgartown went to the sea and the cloud on Monday, launching a new website and setting dates for the commercial oyster season at its selectmen’s meeting.

Zachary A. Dupon has been charged with motor vehicle homicide after a head-on crash on Beach Road Saturday night resulted in the death of another driver.

Island health officials reported five new positive Covid-19 tests and 54 active cases on Friday as all three down-Island towns were designated high risk for virus transmission.

With the North Atlantic right whale population at a dangerously low ebb, the state Division of Marine Fisheries is proposing a statewide seasonal ban on lobstering.

Vineyard Wind has withdrawn its construction and operation plans from the federal permitting process, suddenly throwing the future into limbo for the consortium.

In a history-making moment, director of emergency room medicine Dr. Karen Casper received the Island’s first dose of coronavirus vaccine early Thursday morning.

Capping nine tense months of anticipation, planning and promise, the first shipment of the eagerly-awaited coronavirus vaccine arrived at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital Wednesday.

Selectmen conditionally approved a conservation restriction on a 10-acre parcel at 35 Tower Hill Road in Katama, received a green light from the state on the town tax rate and formally accepted an award for the town’s water department in a busy meeting Monday.

Island health agents reported 10 new patients Tuesday, as Gov. Charlie Baker pleaded for residents to avoid travel and spend the holidays only with immediate household members.

The Permanent Endowment for Martha’s Vineyard has changed its name to the Martha’s Vineyard Community Foundation as part of a broader effort to reorient the unique organization, leaders announced Monday.