Provincetown

Donna Walker has spent the past few years as DEI director for Provincetown. Before that, she worked in higher education.

Like many coastal communities, Provincetown is searching for ways to help property owners prevent devastating flooding from more frequent and more intense storms — a major consequence of climate change.

Despite medical strides, people still face barriers to accessing sexual health care, particularly in remote and transient communities like Provincetown. That's why registered nurse Jeffrey Schaffer started a program at Outer Cape Health Services called testNtreat.

On Thanksgiving Day in 1984, staff from the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown disentangled their first whale. This is the story of CCS scientist emeritus Stormy Mayo and a humpback called Ibis.

The Cape and Islands gave Vice President Kamala Harris some of her highest margins of victory in the state. And one South Coast town delivered Donald Trump's biggest win in Massachusetts.

With a flourish of handbells and calls of “Oyez!” or “Hear ye!” town criers from as far away as Ontario and Maryland did their best to wow the crowd Monday, as Cape Cod played host, for the first time, to an international competition of town criers.

Two years ago, the town sewer system’s critical central vacuum system malfunctioned, after heavy rain caused a failure in the electrical panel. The results, for many, were unpleasant.

For the first time in a decade, a panel from the National AIDS Memorial Quilt is back on display at the AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod in Provincetown.

"Writing through things is a way of taking it off your chest and letting the page hold it for you."

A long-running dispute has been settled for future use of a historic dune shack in the Cape Cod National Seashore. The agreement between the Department of the Interior and the Del Deo family may set a precedent for others facing eviction from shacks they have cared for for generations.