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Six stranded hunters were flown from a marsh on Cape Cod Saturday by a Coast Guard helicopter, the agency said. The rescue came when wind chills around Massachusetts were below zero, but no one was hurt, the Coast Guard said Sunday. Their boat had become grounded at Slough Point in Barnstable, near Duck Island and the Great Marshes and they…

The U.S. Coast Guard and local harbormasters are searching for a plane that may have crashed off the coast of Cape Cod. The downed plane — a white and beige Piper 28 aircraft — was reported missing off Nauset Beach in Orleans, Massachusetts. A male pilot was on board, the Coast Guard said. The original call was made to the…

A rare two-headed diamondback terrapin turtle is alive and kicking — with all six of its legs — at the Birdsey Cape Wildlife Center in Massachusetts after hatching two weeks ago.

A plane crash with seven people on board in Provincetown, Massachusetts, was likely caused by the weather, officials said. No one was killed in the crash at Provincetown Airport, which involved a Cape Air flight, according to Town Manager Alex Morse, who said weather conditions “caused an issue with the landing.” Cape Air confirmed the crash of Flight 2072, saying…

Heading down the cape for Labor Day weekend is a New England tradition. Unfortunately, so is traffic on the way back home on Monday. That particular tradition was definitely being observed on Labor Day 2021. Cape Cod traffic stretched back from the Sagamore Bridge about eight miles along Route 6, into East Sandwich. The back-up almost reached West Barnstable about…

A man has been arrested after allegedly ambushing a woman and stabbing her multiple times outside of her Cape Cod home. Police say the woman was walking into her home on Barberry Lane in the Marston Mills section of Barnstable, Massachusetts, around 1:30 a.m. on Saturday when she was attacked and repeatedly stabbed. The attacker then fled. Police responded to…

Barnstable County officials are warning residents to take precautions and secure their boats as a hurricane watch takes effect on Cape Cod and the Islands. The National Weather Service and the National Hurricane Center issued hurricane watches for the Cape and Islands as well as most of the South Coast of New England Friday morning. The watches will remain in…

More than 250 coronavirus cases have been confirmed as connected to a COVID outbreak in Provincetown, the popular tourist town on the tip of Cape Cod. Many of the cases are from elsewhere in Massachusetts or out of state, authorities said Wednesday. Also Wednesday, Nantucket joined Provincetown in advising people on the island to start wearing masks indoors and when…

Last month, the Cape Cod Air Force Station changed its name to the Cape Cod Space Force Station and introduced Space Force members to the roster. That one word replacement adds a whole new dimension to the mission of the station.

There’s still time to book your Cape Cod vacation this summer!

It really is through sickness and in health for these two love birds. The Cape Cod branch of the New England Wildlife Centers typically doesn’t allow people to visit the patients they drop off, but on Wednesday, the wildlife hospital made an exception for its first animal visitor, according to a post on the organization’s Facebook page. A Canada...

Provincetown has seen a “handful” of new coronavirus cases in the past few days, Town Manager Alex Morse said on Facebook Monday.

Now that shark season is officially here, researchers on Cape Cod are busy trying to find a way to predict when the animals are swimming close to the shore.

Michael Packard’s story of being swallowed briefly by a humpback whale as he was diving for lobster off Massachusetts Friday went viral quickly. But some people are skeptical.

The Massachusetts lobster diver recovering from injuries received when he was improbably swallowed up, then spit out, by a humpback whale on Friday is having a bit of fun with his newfound fame.

Whales are known as the “gentle giants of the sea,” so how often are people actually swallowed by one, like the Massachusetts lobster diver who survived his encounter this week?

A Massachusetts commercial lobster diver is recovering from his injuries after being swallowed by a humpback whale off the coast of Cape Cod Friday.

A commercial lobster diver was injured when he said he was swallowed by a humpback whale off the coast of Cape Cod Friday. Michael Packard was in the whale’s closed mouth for 30-40 seconds, he said.