A 24-foot powerboat caught fire in the Oak Bluffs harbor just off East Chop Drive early Tuesday, unleashing large plumes of smoke and an array of sirens.

For much of the past summer, residents of Aquinnah have been plagued by a foul odor wafting from the normally pristine beaches near Dogfish Bar.

A long-planned project to expand the Martha’s Vineyard Refuse District central transfer station is under review by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.

As a particularly pervasive summer for ticks on the Island winds down, the Infectious Disease Society of America has released new draft guidelines for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease.

The Hon. Mark Wolf has had to make many difficult decisions in his long career. But the decision to come to Martha’s Vineyard every summer for the past three decades? That hasn’t taken much deliberation at all.

Mounting legal bills have prompted the Aquinnah selectmen to tentatively set a special town meeting and special town election for early October.