Cape Cod

Mass. Woman Finds Missing Bike After 40 Years

Posted 05.25.2012

When 11-year-old Lisa Brown rode her bike -- her first bike -- across a bridge over the Herring River in Massachusetts in 1970, she lost her footing, ...

David Lohr

Remains Found Of Trudie Hall, A Missing Pregnant Woman Who Allegedly Had 2 Husbands

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 04.25.2012

Human remains found in Massachusetts have been identified as those of a missing Nantucket pregnant woman whose mysterious disappearance captured natio...

Cape Cod, Without The Cod?

The Huffington Post | Drew Guarini | Posted 04.06.2012

Hard times for cod fishermen in New England may become even more difficult with federal regulators reducing the amount of cod they can catch when fish...

Occupy Movement's Latest Frontier? Vacation Destination

Posted 02.24.2012

Vacation destination Cape Cod may seem like a bizarre place for an Occupy protest, but that didn't stop demonstrators from rallying in the area known ...

2 New England Utilities Agree To Buy Offshore Wind Power

AP | JAY LINDSAY | Posted 04.17.2012

BOSTON (AP) — Energy companies Northeast Utilities and NStar have agreed to buy more than a quarter of the power produced by the long-planned Cape W...

PHOTOS: Underground Railroad B&Bs Offer A Cozy Look At Raw History

Andrew Burmon | Posted 02.08.2012

The book case in the plush room upstairs still opens into a secret passage, but the spot where slaves fled through a trap door is now occupied by a ja...

What A Wreck! Sunken Treasure Found

AP | CLARKE CANFIELD | Posted 04.02.2012

PORTLAND, Maine — A treasure hunter said Wednesday he has located the wreck of a British merchant ship that was torpedoed by a German U-boat off...

RAW VIDEO: Animal Welfare Fund Responds To 60 Dolphins Beached At Cape Cod

Posted 01.19.2012

More than 60 dolphins have been beached and stranded along 25 miles of coastline at Cape Cod since Jan. 12, according to the International Fund for An...

Endangered Cape Cod Island Cottages Face Demolition

AP | By JAY LINDSAY | Posted 11.07.2011

CHATHAM, Mass. -- On a speck of island across Chatham Harbor, a weathered doorway opens to a cottage where beach towels substitute for couch covers an...

Give a Hoot, Don't Pollute! Part 2

Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 11.05.2011

Zoe P. Strassfield

We were visiting a farm that grew fresh fruits and vegetables for The Food Project, an organization that distributed them to hunger relief organizations in the Boston area and local communities that might not otherwise have access to fresh, healthy food.

LA Memories of Cape Cod Summers

Bill Blanning | Posted 10.24.2011

Bill Blanning

I've mostly adapted from my Cape Cod roots to Southern California. But summer isn't really summer until I get back to the Cape, with gin and tonics at sunset and the glow of a sunburn at the end of the day.

Cape Cod National Seashore -- Second Thoughts?

Edward Flattau | Posted 10.19.2011

Edward Flattau

Even after 50 years of success as a tourist bonanza, the National Seashore still has a smattering of critics who complain it deprives people of residential space.

Sharks Become Cape Cod Tourist Attraction

AOL Travel News | Posted 09.08.2011

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Artists Find Success Selling Their Work to Tourists

Daniel Grant | Posted 05.29.2011

Daniel Grant

Vacationers and second home owners are a major source of collecting for a great many artists who paint or sculpt regional scenes.

Honoring the Heroes of 'Old Shaky'

Dorian de Wind | Posted 05.25.2011

Dorian de Wind

On Wednesday, February 9, President Obama recognized the 28 men who died when Texas Tower No. 4, located 85 miles southeast of New York City, colla...

Christmas Letter 2010

Jerry Zezima | Posted 05.25.2011

Jerry Zezima

Since I am in the holiday spirit (and, having just consumed a mug of hot toddy, a glass of eggnog and a nip of cheer, the holiday spirits are in me), I have once again decided to follow in that great tradition of boring everyone silly by writing a Christmas letter.

Congratulations, America. You Passed Wind.

Ben Carmichael | Posted 05.25.2011

Ben Carmichael

For some, it was with a sense of relief that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar passed Cape Wind. For others, it was the latest in a drama that has lasted nearly a decade. Either way, this is a story that blows.

American Consumers Aren't Buying Climate Action

Corbin Hiar | Posted 05.25.2011

Corbin Hiar

Earlier this week at the Clinton Global Initiative, UN climate chief Christiana Figueres offered her assessment of what was preventing progress in the...

Woods Hole Film Fest

Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 05.25.2011

Stewart Nusbaumer

The best film festivals have stimulating films in a festive atmosphere. Films that challenge and entertain and stretch the mind in a social environment of filmgoers who interact and bond.

ANOTHER Great White Shark Sighting Off Of Cape Cod

Posted 05.25.2011

Cape Cod officials have closed five miles off of a Chatham beach after a spotter pilot saw three more great white sharks, including one that was swimm...

Dahlin'

Kate Clinton | Posted 05.25.2011

Kate Clinton

In Ptown we are cycling too fast through the themed weekends of summer: Film Festival, Portuguese Festival, Circuit Party 4th of July, and now it's already Bear Week.

"Drill, Baby, Drill?" That's What Got Us Into This Oily Mess

Brian Keane | Posted 05.25.2011

Brian Keane

As Americans, we're lucky to have the choices that come with prosperity. It shouldn't take an epic man-made disaster like the BP oil spill to help us make the right ones.

A Very Mighty Wind

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 05.25.2011

Jonathan A. Schein

hat happens when millions of gallons of oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico, threatening environmental destruction and the loss of thousands of jobs? You'd think that a move toward renewable energy would be met with much fanfare.

Weekly Mulch: Oil rig sinks, as does Senate climate bill

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

The Media Consortium

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Two disasters flared up this week, one environmental, the other political. Off the coast of Louisiana, oil f...

Cape Wind Project (VIDEO): The Arguments On Both Sides

Posted 05.25.2011

Cape Wind, the first-ever U.S. offshore wind farm, off Cape Cod, was finally given government approval Wednesday after being hotly contested for nine ...