Nantucket

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.

The U.S. Coast Guard conducted a medevac of a fisherman from a New Bedford fishing vessel southeast of Nantucket on Wednesday, according to a release.

From giant tomahawk steaks to mouth-watering lobster BLTs to a pile of crispy tater tots, here are 20 of the most unique and delicious dishes on the SouthCoast.

A lifelong Nantucket resident is asking the town to consider allowing women to go topless on all island beaches, since men are already allowed to do so.

The North Atlantic right whale population has shrunk by 30 percent over the last decade, the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium announced Monday.

The $2.3 billion Vineyard Wind project off the Nantucket coast can officially begin, as the company announced its financial close today.

Coast Guard crews responded to two separate incidents off the coast of Nantucket reported just ten minutes apart on Thursday.