Chatham

As seals return to the waters off the Cape and Islands, white sharks aren’t far behind. And, it turns out, they aren’t the only seal-hunting sharks in our waters.

The carbon cycle is a staple on any Earth science class syllabus, but scientists are still studying its nuances.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could enjoy a meal of locally-caught and produced seafood, while helping to combat food insecurity in Massachusetts? Now you can.

The town's purchase of a single-family home for affordable housing could become a model for other towns. But the deal hinged on altruistic homeowners selling their house to the Chatham Affordable Housing Trust well below market rate.

With just five guests and one journalist, this nearly private tour happens on a 35-foot fishing boat. But the only thing they’ll be fishing for is an eyeful of a feared and fascinating ocean predator: the great white shark.

A shortage of health care providers continues to plague the Cape, according to a new study commissioned by Barnstable County.

Prehistoric animals roam the Massachusetts coastline. And this time of year they’re storming the beaches for their annual spawning season. Here's a closer look at how horseshoe crabs reproduce, and what officials are doing to protect them.

It appeared, according to state officials, that after the crabs were harvested, they died somewhere in the storage process, and were dumped at sea because they had decayed to the point where they were no longer marketable as bait crabs.

Chatham voters approved nearly 6 million dollars at a Special Town Meeting Sunday to upgrade the town's water system. Three articles passed unanimously in about 15 minutes.

June to October in Massachusetts is the growing season for some of our most popular shellfish, including quahogs and oysters. To keep the harvest sustainable, town shellfish programs are raising millions of them each year, in tucked-away places that are easy to miss.