Cooper A. Gilkes 3rd has been known nationally for his fishing prowess - and now he has an appropriate award to match.

East winds, fog and shifting breezes challenged the best sailors in last week's 82nd Edgartown Yacht Club Regatta. More than 200 sailboats competed in the one-design sailboat race that ran from Thursday through Saturday.

The American eel, once as abundant as shellfish in Island coastal ponds and rivers and all along the Atlantic seaboard, is in such decline that the

The bloom of toxic red tide that closed shellfish beds from Maine to Nantucket spared the Vineyard this week, fading off the eastern shore of Chapp

The worst bloom of toxic red tide in the history of New England closed in on the Vineyard yesterday after shellfish beds were shut down from Maine

Gus Ben David's newest feathered friend is seven weeks old, and subsists on a diet of rats and mice.