The settlement will allow the town to create a fund to compensate local businesses for their losses, officials said.

“For us, ‘The Big One’ is a hurricane,” said Chip Reilly, emergency preparedness director for the Barnstable County Department of Health and Environment.

The shark was swimming off of Stoney Beach on the 4th of July.

A local author is back with the second edition of her Cape and Islands ice cream field guide.

This Saturday is the 50th anniversary of Cabo Verde's independence from Portugal.

Lauren Diggin, a spokesperson for the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources, said “the changing federal landscape” makes finalizing contracts difficult.

Sunday, June 22, marked the 90th anniversary of the Bourne and Sagamore bridges — and the railroad bridge turns 90 in December. CAI met with Samantha Gray, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers park ranger, to hear more about the history.

Monday is the signing deadline for the state’s latest round of offshore wind contracts, but it’s unclear if any of the developers selected in September plan to sign.

The Cape Cod Commission is helping the town of Eastham develop a climate action plan.

Onlookers lined the edge of a roped-off area as each turtle was lifted from a plastic bin and set gingerly on the sand. With a little help getting past the seaweed, the turtles used their flippers to head out into the gentle surf.