Edgartown selectmen voted this week to stay the course on seasonal alcohol licenses, which run between April 1 and Nov. 30.

An Island man was ordered held on $15,000 bail Monday following an alleged weekend crime spree that included setting fires, breaking into houses, and vandalizing gravestones in Oak Bluffs.

Sometimes you win races by sailing fast. But in the 28th annual Pat West Gaff Rig Race held on Saturday, schooner Juno won the race by not sailing at all.

Researchers are analyzing samples taken from a dead humpback whale that washed up on the south shore of Martha’s Vineyard this week.

The Martha’s Vineyard Airport commission voted last week to buy the bulk of the electricity for the Island airport from a New York private equity fund that develops solar power facilities.

For the second consecutive year, Steve Besse sailed his J/105 Apres to victory in the Moffett Race Saturday, becoming the first skipper in the 39-year history of the race to win three times.