Oak Bluffs selectmen heard from the town’s conservation agent and the chairman of the conservation commission Tuesday, who spoke out against use of a mechanical beach rake to clean and remove rocks from the town’s popular beaches.

Sunday brings the end to Daylight Saving Time and clocks will fall back an hour.

Holly Bellebuono’s Women Healers of the World has been awarded the 16th Annual Thomas DeBaggio Book of the Year Award by The International Herb Association.

Carl Linnaeus, father of the modern scientific classification system, has been called a lot of things: brilliant, poetic, influential.

If you think sparrows are tough to identify, you are not alone. After all, there is a reason for the expression “little brown job.”

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank will expand its Fulling Mill Brook Preserve in Chilmark with the purchase this week of 17 acres on Middle Road. The land bank paid $1,775,000 to siblings Emily and Oliver Rothschild for the property.