Under a silvery gray sky this week, brothers Dan and Greg Martino motored out from Lagoon Pond to their oyster farm off Eastville.

Plans to develop a permanent tidal energy test site in the Cape Cod Canal may bode well for a long-stalled effort to bring tidal energy to Muskeget Channel off Chappaquiddick.

The Tisbury board of health held a third public hearing on a controversial proposal to charge new homeowners for the wastewater they produce.

With funding for the Island’s tick-borne illness reduction initiative soon to end, health agents and others face an uphill battle in stemming the advance of lone star ticks, which have gained a foothold.

Next week, the 40-foot double-hulled canoe Hokule'a will arrive in Vineyard Haven for a three-day visit, having traveled three-quarters of the way around the world from its home port of Honolulu.

One Big Home, director Thomas Bena’s first feature-length film, which took more than a decade to shoot and edit, makes its Island debut Wednesday as part of the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival summer series.