Cape Cod

People who recently dined at a Cape Cod restaurant may have been exposed to the virus hepatitis A, health officials said Saturday.

Smoke was pouring into the sky above Cape Cod on Thursday afternoon from a brush fire.

Masses of cicadas will emerge in Cape Cod and southeastern Massachusetts this May and June after 17 years underground — and they will be loud.

The Cape Wildlife Center said rescue workers helped make sure a raccoon safely left a chimney in Brewster, Massachusetts, and found a new home for her babies

Editor’s note: Some readers might find the images included in this story disturbing. Orleans police shared three photos of the shark on Facebook on Tuesday, showing the dead shark on the back of a flatbed truck. “Not one of our typical calls for service,” the department said. “Not is it one for our local duty tow, Nauset Recovery. But, as...

The first tagged white shark has been detected off Cape Cod this season, and she’s a bit of a legend. LeeBeth, a 14-foot shark, made history this February off the coast of Mexico, just south of the Texas border, the furthest west that one of the animals, often referred to as great whites, with a tracking tag has ever...

A flamingo was spotted on Cape Cod, a very rare and possibly unprecedented bird sighting for Massachusetts. If the bird is found to be wild, it would be the first American flamingo ever confirmed to have visited the Bay State on its own, according to Mark Faherty, science coordinator for Mass Audubon Cape Cod. Some people questioned whether the images…

Humans not the only ones getting ready to head to Massachusetts beaches. White sharks are back in the Bay State’s waters, researchers say, just in time for Memorial Day weekend. “They are starting to arrive,” said Megan Winton of the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy. Bites recently spotted on a dead whale near Chatham, on Cape Cod, and a living...