With a new manager on deck and an audit that flagged deficiencies from the past year, the Martha’s Vineyard airport commission looked forward and also back at their monthly meeting.

Oak Bluffs voters were inquisitive and sometimes cranky at their annual town meeting this year, questioning budget expenditures and criticizing some town departments.

West Tisbury police arrested a man wielding a 38-inch Samurai sword Monday evening at a home on Oak Knoll Road.

The Island Home was back on her usual route two days after an electrical fire broke out while the ferry was docked in Fairhaven for maintenance.

Residents lined up to get their mail Tuesday as the post office reopened at its temporary location in the Carnegie building.

State Rep. Tim Madden, who is finishing his third term serving the district that includes Martha's Vineyard, is famously hesitant to sing his own praises. He spoke last week at the Gazette Tuesdays in the Newsroom series.

A $28.4 million operating budget tops the warrants for Oak Bluffs special and annual town meetings Tuesday.

A $33.5 million operating budget and renovation of Memorial Wharf are among the items coming before Edgartown voters.

After more than a year of wrangling among neighbors, the planning board this week approved the demolition of a home at 2 Beach street which is more than 100 years old.

The Dukes County Commission unanimously approved a new contract with the Trustees of Reservations to manage Norton Point Beach this week, ending a recent disagreement over wages.