Cape Cod

A man suffered traumatic injuries after being crushed by a boat on Cape Cod Friday, fire officials said. Police and fire crews responded to a 911 call in the Osterville area of Barnstable, Massachusetts, after a boat fell on a person in the area of Moniz Circle. The caller did not know if the man was breathing or conscious when…

Efforts are underway in a Cape Cod town to save a horse whose owner died after expressing she had wanted the animal buried with her. Barbara Collins of Sandwich, Massachusetts, had a dying wish to be buried with her beloved horse, Brady — named after longtime Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. After Collins’ death from stomach cancer, that wish is causing…

The International Fund for Animal Welfare says a dolphin that was found stranded on Cape Cod was released after being treated at a new facility. The Dolphin Rescue Center, described by IFAW as a “first-of-its-kind short-term rehabilitation facility,” opened last year in Orleans, Massachusetts. A dolphin that was stranded this weekend in Brewster became the facility’s first patient, IFAW...

When the two bridges to Cape Cod are finally built, Massachusetts will own them, not the federal government, under a new agreement announced Thursday that Gov. Maura Healey hailed as “an important step forward in our efforts to replace the Bourne and Sagamore Bridges.” That agreement between Massachusetts and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commits $700 million from the…

According to police, the 41-year-old man was shot by a 26-year-old Hyannis resident directly known to him.

The United States Coast Guard determined there is no pollution after a fishing boat ran aground at a Cape Cod beach on Friday. Authorities say they were notified at around 2:30 a.m. from the Miss Megan fishing vessel that had three people onboard. The incident occurred at Ballston Beach in Truro, Massachusetts, the Coast Guard said. No injuries were reported….

An 80-year-old Cape Cod school bus driver has been indicted on sexual assault charges after he was accused of assaulting students in two separate incidents on his bus during September 2023, prosecutors said Friday. Jeffrey Hyland was indicted on two counts of aggravated indecent assault and battery on a child less than 14, two counts of reckless endangerment of a…

Massachusetts has received hundreds of millions in federal funding as part of a plan to replace the two bridges to Cape Cod, leaders announced Friday. Gov. Maura Healey said her administration is celebrating after learning the state would get $372 million, the full amount it applied for from the Federal Multimodal Project Discretionary Grant program in August. “This is a…

The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy completed their research season for 2023, announcing they successfully tagged 34 white sharks off Cape Cod from July through late October. 304 individual sharks have been tagged off the coast of Cape Cod since the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries began its tagging program. Members of the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy attended the White Sharks…

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation has filed an application requesting $1.06 billion in federal grant funding toward the project to replace the Cape Cod bridges. The replacement of the aging Sagamore Bridge and Bourne Bridge has become a priority for Massachusetts lawmakers, including Gov. Maura Healey. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey have been pushing for federal funding for the…

A Cape Cod man faced a judge Thursday after being charged with 11 counts of rape. Prosecutors say 42-year-old Barry Viprino of Harwich, Massachusetts, was arraigned on charges stemming from the sexual assaults of three women this year. Police in Harwich learned of allegations from one woman in August, and two more victims came forward in October and November, according…

More than 25 years after Ben Lyons tossed a message in a bottle off the shores of Cape Cod as part of a science project, it’s been found 3,300 miles across the Atlantic Ocean.

Nearly three decades after a middle school student tossed a message in a bottle off the shores of Cape Cod, the letter has been returned – with a response.

Federal officials have arrested a Venezuelan fugitive previously convicted of homicide after he was found living in state-provided housing on Joint Base Cape Cod in Bourne, Massachusetts. According to U.S Immigration and Customers, Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston arrested the man on Oct. 27. The man, 38, had not disclosed the conviction to U.S. Border Patrol when he was…

A pickup truck crashed into a building in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, on Friday, leaving four people injured, police said. The cause of the crash at the TD Bank on Route 28 was under investigation, Yarmouth police said, noting that no one was seriously injured. They initially called the crash between Woods and Forest roads, which temporarily closed the highway, “a major…

Failing to replace Cape Cod’s two deteriorating bridges “would be catastrophic,” according to a new report released by Massachusetts’ U.S senators this week. Massachusetts lawmakers have been fighting to win federal funding to replace the 90-year-old bridges, which carries the vast majority of Cape Cod’s more than 5 million visitors each year. The bridge replacement project has been estimated...

The story of Cape Cod commercial lobster diver Michael Packard being briefly swallowed by a humpback whale while in the water off the coast is being told in a feature-length documentary called, “In the Whale.”

The 19-year-old charged in a deadly boat crash in Dennis, Massachusetts, pleaded not guilty to all charges at a hearing Tuesday morning. Prosecutors allege David K. Sullivan was driving the boat that crashed in Sesuit Harbor on July 21, killing 17-year-old Sadie Mauro. She would have been a senior in high school this year. At the hearing in Barnstable Superior…