Dozens of people spoke passionately for or against the project. Testimony focused on how to balance the need for housing on Cape Cod against the virtues of open space and conservation.
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Friday night temperatures expected to drop to 0 degrees. With 40mph wind gusts, that could feel like 20 below.
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Around this time every year, Elspeth talks with a local farmer or gardener about ordering seeds for the upcoming growing season. This year, she’s branched into aquaculture.
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Nantucket public schools are reopening today after a ransomware attack disrupted the district's online service and security.
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Dr. Richard Zelman sued in December, saying he was defamed and fired after he raised concerns about ethics and safety in cardiac care.
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Back in the fall I covered the annual “winter finch forecast”, where a network of biologists across the northern forests put together their best guesses for what northern songbirds will be doing this winter.
The Point
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This week: The region braces for a blast of arctic weather. Nantucket schools are shut down by a cyber attack. And the contentious proposed 312-unit development at the former Twin Brooks golf course gets an approval from the Cape Cod Commission.
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A roundtable of religious leaders talk about the history and practice of the Sabbath.
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Protecting Cape Cod waters and ecosystems from wastewater contamination.
NPR Stories
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Record temperatures and powerful winds are blasting several states with dangerous subzero wind chills. The cold snap is expected to let up in the coming days.
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Meteorologists say when temperatures reached well below zero Friday night, the situation was "scary but fascinating."
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. about the forthcoming episode of Finding Your Roots which features actor Joe Manganiello discovering he is of African descent.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. about the forthcoming episode of Finding Your Roots which features actor Joe Manganiello discovering he is of African descent.
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U.S. military officials say that a Chinese spy balloon has been shot down, just off the coast of South Carolina.
For the past two-and-a-half years, the Massachusetts Army National Guard and local opponents have been locked in battle over whether a machine gun range should be built at Joint Base Cape Cod. We traveled with the Guard to their training range in Vermont to see and hear what the future may bring to the Cape.