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The OneCape Summit was held this week, where national and local leaders discussed solutions to child care, housing and climate change.

OneCape Summit, a regional forum presented by the Cape Cod Commission, will be held on Aug. 1 and 2.

The 100-foot buffer zones required around vernal pools may not be giving salamanders and other animals enough habitat to survive.

Email The path to winning appointment to Long Island’s highly paid police forces has been more than three times tougher for Black would-be officers than for white applicants and twice as tough for Hispanic job seekers in recruitment by the Nassau and Suffolk County departments, a Newsday investigation has found. With thousands more people seeking jobs than the number needed by the two forces, the investigation revealed that since 2012, each county’s hiring process rejected minorities at rates that exceeded a federally established benchmark used to detect evidence of unlawful discriminati...

By Doug Fraser Cape Cod Times BARNSTABLE — Back in 2018, local environmental activists were dismayed at proposed Cape Cod Commission updates to the Regional Policy Plan addressing climate change, saying they lacked the specificity and sense of urgency needed to address the most pressing issue of our time. Responding to a citizens’ petition, the commission last summer created a subcommittee with an ambitious agenda: Meet for six months and return with a better suite of amendments to the regional plan. Amendments unanimously approved Last week, those changes were unveiled to the Barnstabl...