Cape Cod

A dolphin was stranded on a Cape Cod beach Saturday and needed to be rescued. The dolphin was stranded around noon in Eastham, Massachusetts. The International Fund for Animal Welfare rescued the dolphin and released it back into the water in Provincetown at Herring Cove Beach later in the day. Video from the scene showed the dolphin needed a little…

At least eight great white sharks were spotted Sunday along Cape Cod, causing the closure of several beaches for part of the day. Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, was ordered closed to swimming until 2 p.m. following the detection of a great white shark by a real-time receiver, the Sharktivity App. Coast Guard Beach was closed to swimming from…

A Pennsylvania family vacationing on Cape Cod had a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The Reigels spotted several sharks Saturday about a quarter mile off the coast of Nauset Beach in Eastham. “We said we wanted to see sharks and we actually saw about five, six great whites,” Lee Ann Reigel said. One shark even came up to the small boat, chartered with…

The Brewster resort is the winner of Boston Magazine’s “Best Hotel on Cape Cod” for the 4th year in a row.

Two white sharks, also known as great white sharks, were seen off Nauset Beach on Tuesday afternoon, according to the Sharktivity App, temporarily closing the water for the second time in the day. Swimmers at the Cape Cod beach were ordered out of the water about 2 p.m., after the pair of sharks were sighted. They’ll be allowed back...

It’s that time of the year when shark sightings start to pick up around Cape Cod. While sightings and reports have been down compared to this time last year, that doesn’t mean they’re not in our local waters. “Sharks are here,” said Megan Winton, a Research Scientist for the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy. “They’re still here even if you’re...

A crash involving a car and truck Wednesday afternoon on the Sagamore Bridge in Bourne, Massachusetts, left the car partially crushed, but the 86-year-old driver walked away with minor bruises. Troopers responded to the crash on Route 6 eastbound at 11:38 a.m. where they said a Mercury Marquis was wedged beneath a Mack truck that belongs to a landscaping company…

A 15-year-old was buried up to her neck in sand when a dune collapsed on top of her on Cape Cod Monday. The teen was digging a hole in a dune on North Beach Island in Chatham when the area collapsed and came crashing on top of her around 5 p.m., according to the Chatham Fire Department. First responders found…

Swimmers were ordered out of the water Sunday in Plymouth and at a Cape Cod beach after sharks were detected, as the number of shark sightings continues to climb as the summer progresses. The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy said a white shark was spotted 20 yards off of Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro. Swimmers were ordered out of…

A popular Cape Cod ice cream shop that reopened just in time for Mother’s Day weekend was forced to scale back to appointment-only, the owner says, after some customers refused to practice social distancing and harassed a teenage girl working at the company. Polar Cave Ice Cream in Mashpee, Massachusetts, is a Cape Cod classic, but it had been...

In recent years there has been an increase in shark sightings in New England. While beachgoers aren’t too happy to be sharing the waters with great whites, the rise in shark sightings is actually something of a success story, and it’s up to us to find a way to co-exist.

Environmental officials on Friday shared a startling photo of a white shark swimming close to a surfer off a popular Cape Cod beach.

Strong winds gusted across Cape Cod, the Islands and parts of New England along with rain as the fringes of Hurricane Dorian passed over parts of the region early Saturday. Provincetown, the northern tip of the Cape, saw winds of up to 63 mph, while winds of 58 mph hit Welfleet, Massachusetts and Charlestown, Rhode Island. In Boston, 32 mph winds were recorded.

Rain will be moving in later today, starting later this afternoon and continuing throughout the evening, and there will be gusty winds at time.

Dave Sigworth from The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk, explained why we’ve been seeing an increase.

Sharks were sighted or detected at beaches on Cape Cod and at Plymouth, Massachusetts, Friday, one of them eating a seal just 25 feet from shore and another seen jumping out of the water. The great white shark seen eating the seal was a stone’s throw from shore about a quarter mile north of Nauset Public Beach in Orleans, the...

Multiple shark sightings have closed beaches in Cape Cod and Nantucket on Sunday. A shark spotted at Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro on Sunday led officials to close the beach to swimmers until given further notice.

A shark sighting Saturday afternoon temporarily closed a Cape Cod beach to swimming. Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro is closed to swimmers until 5 p.m. after a shark was spotted nearby its shoreline.

Town beaches in Plymouth, Massachusetts, have been temporarily closed to swimmers after a confirmed shark sighting. Swimming at Plymouth beaches will be suspended for three hours after the harbormaster received a report from a lobsterman who said he saw a nearly 9-foot long white shark at the surface alongside his boat.

Two Cape Cod beaches were temporarily closed to swimmers Monday after separate shark sighting.