About 25 North Atlantic right whales gathered south of the Vineyard last week, marking an early-season sighting.

It’s been a banner year for bay scallops in Edgartown, with town selectmen voting this week to allow commercial scalloping on Saturdays through the end of the season.

Edgartown is one step closer to having a new steward for the Yellow House after one of two potential developers withdrew from the process Monday.

Three environmental organizations went to court against the federal government last week.

Many were in mourning this week around the Vineyard after regional high school senior Jake Baird was killed last Friday in an early morning car accident in Chilmark.

A long-planned replacement of the World War II-era airplane hangar at the Katama Airfield is slated to come before Edgartown voters in the spring.