Three communities in Massachusetts have a lot to lose if the Trump administration succeeds in halting all offshore wind.

The New England Aquarium identified the pair as 16-year-old “Koala” and 14-year-old “Curlew,” both females. And this, too, is unusual: two right whales rarely remain together for more than a few days, unless it's a mother with her calf.

Eighteen years ago, Rob Martin learned that his lobster gear had entangled a humpback whale. He made it his mission to prevent repeats of his experience by becoming a gear specialist for the federal government. Now Martin is among thousands of federal employees who have themselves become entangled in the Trump administration’s sweeping job cuts.

Sagamore Bridge neighbors who stand to lose their homes for the replacement bridge, or who will end up living directly next to the bridge, spoke directly to the state’s head of the project at a public forum last night in Bourne.

Law enforcement agents smashed the back window of a man’s car and indicated in Spanish they did not have an immigration order before they detained him, a video recorded by the man’s wife shows.

The National Seashore is expected to have a full complement of lifeguards and other summer employees this year, but it could still face a reduction in year-round staff.

The state Division of Marine Fisheries and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have teamed up to launch an innovative passive acoustic monitoring network. The aim is to improve detection of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales in Massachusetts waters.

Survey experts with the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown say they’ve been thrilled to identify more 162 individual right whales in recent weeks — that’s out of a total of about 370.

A state representative from Cape Cod was arrested Friday morning for an alleged financial fraud scheme that the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts described as an “appalling breach of public trust.”

Community meetings with the state's leader of the Cape bridges replacement project start Tuesday, April 15th. Meanwhile, the federal funding committed for the Sagamore has yet to hit state coffers.