Commercial fishermen and climate activists sparred with each other during a marathon, five-hour public hearing last week.

The Edgartown Fourth of July parade will take place on Independence Day as usual. Some things never change, but this year Col. Ted Morgan will be missing.

Spurred by heightened conversation around the Island’s housing shortage, the Martha’s Vineyard Commission has taken steps to overhaul its affordable housing policy.

In a stunning turn, a federal district judge in Boston issued a ruling that holds the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) must obtain building permits before constructing a bingo hall on tribal lands.

Island naturalist Gus Ben David has helped return 400-pound sea turtles to the ocean and helped return struggling, orphaned great horned owls to the skies. But nature isn’t a Disney movie. And that was never more clear than on Monday.