Cape Cod

The “Lady of the Dunes” case, which involved what had been Massachusetts’ longest-unidentified homicide victim, has been officially closed after nearly 50 years as investigators declared Monday that she was killed by her husband.

Enough white sharks are now visiting Cape Cod that researchers are calling it one of the world’s largest hot spots for the apex predator. About 800 white sharks swam through the Cape Cod area from 2015 to 2018, according to the new research, published Thursday in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series. It used a first-of-its-kind population survey for white…

An incredibly rare sight was caught on camera off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts, when three humpback whales jumped out of the water at the very same time.

The 17-year-old girl whose body was recovered from the water in a search-and-rescue operation after a boat crashed into a jetty off the coast of Cape Cod late Friday, has been identified as a Dover-Sherborn High School lacrosse standout who was known for her kindness. The principal of Dover-Sherborn High School, John Smith, announced Sadie Mauro’s death in an...

Police on Cape Cod are investigating a fatal hit-and-run crash on Monday night. Officers in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, were called shortly after 9:30 p.m. to a report that a man was lying on Route 6. The man was found unresponsive and bleeding from his head, police said. First responders performed CPR on the man and took him to Cape Cod Hospital….

John G. Berylson was the owner of Millwall FC. He died in a car crash on Cape Cod on July 4.

The urgent search continuing for a missing submersible vessel in the Atlantic Ocean is now in the end of its third day. The sub vanished 900 miles off the coast of Cape Cod during a dive to the wreck of the Titanic. The Coast Guard and other agencies are using aircraft and sonar buoys, searching an area the size of…

The urgent search continues for a missing submersible vessel in the Atlantic Ocean, now in the end of its third day. The sub vanished 900 miles off the coast of Cape Cod during a dive to the wreck of the Titanic.

It appears to be shark season again on Cape Cod, and just in time for Memorial Day weekend. A whale-watching cruise out of Provincetown spotted a shark eating a seal in the Atlantic about 30 miles from Boston Harbor on Sunday, the boating group said. Experts are calling it the area’s first sighting of the year, and reminding the public…

After its recent Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, two locations of the Christmas Tree Shops in Massachusetts were included on a store closure list, according to NBC affiliate WJAR. The two Bay State stores on the closure list are both on Cape Cod — in Bourne and Falmouth — according to WJAR. The news outlet reported that stores in Florida, Georgia,…

The Cape Cod Canal is closed until at least Monday morning as several endangered North Atlantic right whales move through the waterway.

The federal government has denied an application for $1.88 billion to replace the Bourne and Sagamore bridges. State transportation officials announced the denial late Wednesday, saying the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) grant application requesting Federal Highway Administration funds under the first round of the Bridge Investment Program Grants was denied. In September, state officials reported that another Army…

Multiple dolphins were rescued Sunday after they became stranded at a known hotspot on Cape Cod.

Ruth Marie Terry has been identified nearly 50 years after she was found dead on Cape Cod, east of Race Point Ranger Station on July 26, 1974.

A fire broke out late Sunday night at an ice cream shop in Sandwich, Massachusetts. The Sandwich Fire Department responded to a reported building fire at Shipwrecked Ice Cream just before 10:30 p.m. Sunday, a release from the department said. Firefighters arrived to find fire visible in the back and side of the building’s exterior. The fire extended into...

Seven kids were taken to the hospital after they were exposed to hazardous fumes at a Cape Cod YMCA on Friday, according to fire officials. The children were exposed to muriatic acid fumes after a hazardous materials spill at the Barnstable YMCA on Iyannough Road, fire officials said. They were having trouble breathing and were taken to the hospital to…

A man arrested Friday night in the grisly killing of his mother on Cape Cod has died after a medical emergency in his jail cell, officials say. Adam Howe was rushed to St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford where he was pronounced dead this weekend, the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office said. Massachusetts State Police and the Cape and Islands...

Police are investigating after partial human remains washed ashore near a popular Cape Cod resort over the weekend. Around 8:45 a.m. Saturday, a person walking along the shore near the Ocean Edge Resort in Brewster, Massachusetts, discovered the partial remains of a human body, the Cape and Islands District Attorney’s Office said Wednesday. Brewster police and state police detectives...

As local lawmakers call for a federal investigation, a Texas sheriff has announced his own local investigation into what led to 48 migrants being “lured” from San Antonio to Massachusetts, and if it was legal. Sheriff Javier Salazar of the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office announced his intentions to open an investigation into the case of the 48 migrants who reportedly…

Wednesday’s unexpected arrival of dozens of undocumented immigrants, sent to Martha’s Vineyard from Florida under the order of Gov. Ron DeSantis, brought back vivid memories of a similar situation that unfolded on Cape Cod more than 60 years ago. In June of 1962, white supremacists in the South arranged for hundreds of Black families from Arkansas to board one-way buses…