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Amid threats from the federal government, Outer Cape Health Services is no longer offering gender-affirming puberty blockers or hormone therapy for those under 19.
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A Cape spring herring run count showed below-average returns. Drought conditions are tough on river herring that require sufficient river flows to return to the ocean.
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Mashpee voters gave the town permission to borrow money for the construction of a system that will help reduce nutrient pollution in Mashpee-Wakeby Pond.
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Earlier this month, illegal vehicle meetups known as “street takeovers” unfolded in several Massachusetts communities. State and local police are cracking down, and a Cape Cod legislator has filed a new bill he says is aimed at preventing them. But it’s not without critics.
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The Cape Cod National Seashore is no longer testing Wellfleet's kettle ponds for water quality metrics.
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An autonomous ocean glider, on a mission to circumnavigate the globe, is making its way from the waters off Cape Cod toward the gulf stream.
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The state did not expect to receive the money until late 2027 or early 2028, according to Luisa Paiewonsky, head of the project for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.
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The population of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales is trending up.
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StationKeeper sends messages directly from shore to vessels. Equipment installed at participating lighthouses makes it possible to warn mariners to slow down when they're traveling through right whale habitat.
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Laela Sayigh is a senior research specialist in the biology department at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She’s headed down to Sarasota, Fla., where she’s been studying dolphin communication with the same population of bottlenose dolphins for nearly 40 years.
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Various grassroots organizations and some Democratic Town Committees are planning the protests to coincide with a national day of action by the No Kings movement.
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Visiting nurses say they don't expect to get paid as much as hospital nurses, but they want the same percentage raise. Both groups are registered nurses.