Earlier last month, Chris Aring-Sharkovitz's family created a GoFundMe campaign to help with medical expenses for a heart and liver transplant. Currently, over $71,000 in donations have been raised towards the $100,000 goal.

In an effort to protect one of the last large classes of fish now reaching breeding age, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission dropped the recreational maximum keeper size limit for a striped bass from 35 inches to 31.

After 38 years as the executive director of the Vineyard Conservation Society, Brendan O'Neill is passing the torch to Samantha Look.

When Aquinnah voters convene next week for the Island’s final annual town meeting, they will weigh funding for town building repairs, proposals to make the town more energy efficient and a plan to raise the town’s short-term rental tax.

In a climate change panel hosted by MVY Monday, experts discussed how to strategically plan around rising tides, a concept known as managed retreat.

The Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society will be able to offer affordable housing for three farmers this summer, after the late Island homesteader Paul Jackson bequeathed his Edgartown home and garden to the organization.

Two towering American elms are returning to West Tisbury for the first time in decades after the species was wiped out by Dutch elm disease.

In the summer of 1959, Richard “Richie” Olsen took a job at Goodale Construction, giving him his first chance to take the helm of a backhoe. Sixty-four years later, the West Tisbury highway supervisor has never strayed far from the role.