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BOSTON – Gov. Charlie Baker now has a climate change bill on his desk that represents the state's first major legislative effort in a dozen years to address one of the most pressing issues of our time. On Monday night, both the Senate and the House passed a bill known as the Next-Generation Roadmap for Massachusetts Climate Policy by wide margins, with only two senators objecting and just nine of 154 representatives voting against the bill, which updates the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2008. “Yesterday, the Legislature met the moment and passed generational legislation that gets ...

Cape Cod Times Cape residents braced themselves for high winds and heavy rain late Christmas Eve into Christmas morning, but the Cape and Islands largely avoided any fallout from the weather. Police and fire officials across the Cape reported little other than routine calls Friday morning, and Eversource reported only scattered power outages across the region, according the utility’s online outage map. Households in Bourne in the area of Mares Pond were among those most affected by wind and rain late Thursday night into Friday morning. There were about 160 homes in the area without power as...

For the past two and a half years, Officer Daniel Girard would get ready for his 16-hour shift by putting on his uniform, protective vest and badge. He's also donned a new tool over the past few weeks that could help increase the department’s transparency and allow for further evidence — a body camera.  The Mashpee Police Department implemented its body camera pilot program on Dec. 1. Officers who volunteered will wear body cameras during their shifts. After one year, the department will review the pilot program and decide whether to make body cameras permanent for all officers.  Mashp...

Looks like Cape Cod will dodge a big snowball. The immediate world off-Cape Cod may see snowfall totals of a foot or more from a powerful nor'easter slated to hit late tonight into tomorrow. But the Cape Cod region will mostly see 1-5 inches of snow, with the exception of Bourne on the Upper Cape, which could see upwards of 8 inches, according to National Weather Service forecasts this morning. The snow is expected to start falling tonight, becoming moderate to heavy at times overnight into early Thursday, when it will change over to rain and snow. Winds could gust as high as 44 mph, the wea...

Researchers spotted the first live right whale calf of the season off the coast of Cumberland Island Friday while surveying for them by plane. Then on Sunday researchers saw the second right whale baby just off the beach in north Florida. The whale moms are nicknamed Chiminea and Millipede, the latter for the series of boat propeller scars down her back, said Georgia Department of Natural Resources Senior Biologist Clay George.  “They're both well known animals,” he said. “In fact, you remember we did a satellite tagging project of a few years ago? Chiminea was one of the females that�...