We round up the week's local news with our region's leading journalists.

John Basile checks in with Matt Haeffner of On the Water magazine on what's biting around the Cape this September. Freshwater ponds are getting restocked with trout as herring-fed bass fishing peaks, while saltwater anglers wait on bonito, albies, and the season's first big striper push.

Sheriff Donna Buckley's correctional officers union voted no confidence, citing unsafe conditions and a hostile workplace under a new superintendent. Buckley says the union is upset over new accountability rules on attendance and leave.

A Mashpee company is building out a network of micro tide gauges to share real-time water level data. It's helpful to a range of users, from boaters to emergency planners.

A team from the Center for Coastal Studies reached the whale and found rope caught in its mouth and wrapped around its body multiple times.

Last year, remnants of a typhoon damaged homes, infrastructure and an archaeological dig site. Now, archaeologists are trying to get as many objects out as possible before the next storm.

The Federal Reserve just raised interest rates this week for the first time this year. So how does it actually work? And what does it mean for the economy — and the rest of us? Here are some answers.

Kaepernick created an uproar in 2016 when he took a knee during the anthem to protest police brutality. Brooks says, "gratitude should always lead the way." She co-stars in If I Go Will They Miss Me?