Ferries were cancelled and schools and town offices shuttered Monday as a winter storm moved through the Vineyard, bringing blizzard conditions for nearly five hours.

Groundhogs are marmots that belong to a group of large ground squirrels in the order Rodentia.

Crazy that snow is so simple, yet so complicated. We all know it is just frozen water, but describing it can get much more detailed.

The weekend blizzard left a rare calling card: cylindrical hunks of snow called snow rollers strewn across Vineyard fields.

A blizzard battered the Vineyard Saturday with high winds and heavy snow, causing power outages and ferry cancellations.

Warm weather over the holiday weekend can be attributed in part to climate change, and even more directly to the El Niño effect.