Nantucket

A Virginia fisherman was sentenced Thursday to nearly 20 years in prison after admitting to murdering a crewmate and attacking others with a hammer aboard a scalloping vessel off the coast of Nantucket in 2018.

No significant injuries were reported.

When you think about the SouthCoast's most expensive homes, Nantucket's housing market certainly comes to mind. So imagine what kind of price tag a place would need to become the elite island's most expensive home ever sold. One palatial estate is trying to do just that...

You can now bare your chest on Nantucket's beaches, but hot tubs and spas are banned in the historic districts, and plastic nip bottles are taboo island-wide.

Nantucket Town Meeting voters on Tuesday night approved a measure that will allow any person to go topless on the island’s beaches.

Both New Bedford and New London are known as the "Whaling City," but is there room in New England for two cities with the same nickname?

This week a Virginia fisherman pleaded guilty to murder and other charges after attacking his crewmates with a hammer and a knife aboard a scalloping vessel off the Nantucket coast in 2018.

Move over Martha's Vineyard, Seastreak is officially offering daily fares out to Massachusetts' other favorite island starting April 20, 2022. That's right, after years with daily routes to Martha's Vineyard departing from New Bedford's State Pier, Seastreak is doing the same for Nantucket, making even more island beach days available for day trips and weekend getaways this summer. Hard f... Read

Nantucket's Dorothy Stover wants to make it legal for women to go topless on the island's beaches. Find out who she is and why this issue is important to her.

Nantucket residents will vote this spring on a proposed bylaw change allowing anyone — including women — to go topless on any beaches on the island.