Barnstable

On a split vote, the Barnstable Town Council has agreed to ask Mass Development to examine the possibility of creating a combined commercial and military airport at Joint Base Cape Cod on the Upper Cape. Some worry that it could be the first move toward closure of the town-owned Cape Cod Gateway Airport in Hyannis.

The annual event is known as First Day Hikes Cape Cod.

New jobs data from Vineyard Wind show the project has employed more than double the 500 union workers it promised. But how many workers come from southeastern Massachusetts is impossible to say — because of the way Vineyard Wind is collecting the data.

Members of the community groups Barnstable Speaks and Save Dowses Beach protested across the street from Four Seas ice cream in Centerville, where Healey stopped to promote the new Massachusetts Ice Cream Trail.

Rescue teams from the New England Aquarium, the Center for Coastal Studies, and the Barnstable harbormaster’s office came together to disentangle a six-foot-long, 400-pound leatherback.

Barnstable County has set aside $7.8 million to clean up the so-called "forever chemicals" in groundwater stemming from the former Barnstable Fire and Rescue Training Academy.

A report released last week by the state’s Racial Imbalance Advisory Council found that roughly two-thirds of publicly funded schools in Massachusetts are segregated. On the Cape and Islands, a little more than half of publicly funded schools are segregated.

Live jazz will return to the restaurant, which operated for almost 40 years until the pandemic shuttered it.

The town’s fire district on Wednesday night unanimously approved spending $1.2 million to design a fire station big enough to accommodate population growth over the next 50 years.

1st Barnstable District State Representative Christopher Flanagan, D-Dennis, says a violation of campaign finance law was his responsibility and he has apologized to the people he represents at the Statehouse.