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MARTHA'S VINEYARD - The U.S. Coast Guard has rescued five people off the coast of Martha's Vineyard after their recreational boat began taking on water Thursday. In a press release, the Coast Guard says the master of the 30-foot boat Cila, based in New Bedford, radioed watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England about 3:30 p...

BOSTON - The two surviving crewmembers injured in an explosion on a bulk-carrier 1,300 miles off of Cape Cod have been medevaced to Portugal. The U.S. Coast Guard in Boston says the crewmembers were airlifted from the bulk-carrier Tamar at 4:30 a...

NEW BEDFORD—The Buttonwood Park Zoo has donated $5,000 as part of a $1 million rescue plan to save the vaquita porpoise, the world's most endangered marine mammal. The vaquita is found off the coast of Mexico and has a very limited range...

PROVINCETOWN, Mass. (AP) - A fisherman was rescued after he fell overboard near a pier in Provincetown during Saturday's snowstorm. The Coast Guard received a mayday call from a fishing vessel at about 9:30 p.m. Saturday stating that a crew member had fallen overboard near the MacMillan Pier...

A group of volunteer firefighters from Swansea were among those honored by Gov. Charlie Baker on Tuesday.

FALMOUTH, Mass. (AP) - An animal rescue team has captured a manatee that repeatedly had been spotted off Cape Cod, far from its usual Florida haunts. Rescuers with the International Fund for Animal Welfare netted the 8-foot-long animal off Washburn Island near Falmouth, Massachusetts...

A woman who crashed her car early Sunday morning on Sandwich Road in Bourne was rescued from the burning vehicle by two passing bystanders.

The animals rescued from a Westport farm are being transferred to animal rescue groups all along the East Coast.

A man and his car were pulled out of the Cape Cod Canal Tuesday morning.

A driver was pulled from his car after it went into the Cape Cod Canal Tuesday morning.