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The Cape Cod Commission has released a regional plan for addressing the Cape’s housing crisis. The report, titled “Housing Cape Cod: The Regional Strategy,” offers strategies and recommendations designed to

YMCA Cape Cod brought its plans for a $35 million, 68,000-square-feet facility in Falmouth to the planning board on Tuesday evening, April 23. Due to the scale of the project,

Restricting development in these areas is better for the community and the natural environment, as well as homeowner, said state environmental leader.

A sweeping vista now greets everyone traveling Woods Hole Road down into the village: a few moments after the road bends due west, Little Harbor comes into view, offering a

Cape Cod water analyst says that the county has been behind average percipitation by 5 inches since February

2021 was one of the worst recent years in terms of fatal car crashes for the Cape.The region averages 13 or 14 traffic-related deaths, but there were 19 this past year.

BARNSTABLE — Even in the middle of a global pandemic, climate change forced its way onto media front pages over the past year with record heat, droughts, water shortages and unprecedented flooding. "Its not so much that climate change itself is proceeding faster than expected — the warming is right in line with model predictions from decades ago," said climate scientist Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University in a July 26 Reuters article. "Rather, its the fact that some of the impacts...

As Rebecca Miller waded into Mashpee’s Santuit Pond, mesh plankton net in hand, a vacationing couple walking a pair of dogs was retreating from the shoreline. Like Miller, Matt Eastman and Alexis Parr are biologists, so they knew the importance of pulling the dogs back when they approached the pond’s gently lapping waters. “Benni just tried to drink the water and I made sure to tell him not to,” Eastman said of the couple’s schnauzer mix. “I heard on the local news in Connecticut th...