Cape Cod's water quality remains a top environmental problem, with significant worries about the health of coastal embayments and freshwater ponds. At the same time, the region's public drinking water ...

Cape Cod and the nearby islands stick out into the Atlantic and Long Island Sound to offer fantastic fishing by boat, ...

A woman was pulled alive from the Cape Cod Canal Thursday afternoon after police responded to a call of someone in the water. Police say the woman was unable to swim to shore by herself, and that ...

The Barnstable County Department of Health and Environment is offering free water quality testing for private well owners across Cape Cod, according to a community announcement. As of Aug. 4, 2025, ...

Deep in Earth’s past, an icy landscape became a seascape as the ice melted and the oceans rose off what is now the northeastern United States. Nearly 50 years ago, a U.S. government ship searching for ...

ENDED UP HERE. CAPE COD IS NO STRANGER TO HAVING ANIMALS BEACHED ON ITS SHORES. IN FACT, IT SEES THE MOST FREQUENT DOLPHIN STRANDINGS OF ANYWHERE IN THE U.S. BUT TODAY’S STRANDING EVENT WAS THE ...

A 31-year-old Wareham woman was pulled out of the waters of the Cape Cod Canal Thursday afternoon, according to police. Bourne Police got a call about the woman around 12:43 p.m. The unnamed woman in ...

The company that owns the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, Holtec International, has filed an appeal seeking to discharge radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay. Last month, the state denied Holtec a ...

After being lured to the Gulf of Maine’s warming waters to feed, young sea turtles are trapped and cold-stunned as ...