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A recent burst of COVID-19 cases in Chatham that contributed to the town being newly assigned the Department of Public Health’s highest risk level for coronavirus transmission is largely linked to a cluster among restaurant staff, Cape Cod officials said Thursday. The number of communities in the highest risk “red” category — a designation assigned when the daily average of…

A Chatham police officer and two others were injured in a three-car crash Tuesday night, according to authorities. The Ford Explorer cruiser crashed with two other cars, a Jeep Wrangler and Jeep Cherokee, on Crowell Road at the intersection of Northgate Road just before 9 p.m. Tuesday, according to the Chatham Police Department. Based on a preliminary investigation, the driver…

There have been a number of shark sightings in recent days, including in Plymouth, Eastham, and Chatham.

After a cluster of positive coronavirus cases linked to a house party on Cape Cod was recently detected by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, pop-up testing will be available to test other individuals who attended the gathering. Ten people originally tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, after attending a July 21 house party in…

Chatham town officials say between 30-50 guests attended a house party without masks, and at least 13 of them later tested positive for coronavirus.

A 15-year-old was buried up to her neck in sand when a dune collapsed on top of her on Cape Cod Monday. The teen was digging a hole in a dune on North Beach Island in Chatham when the area collapsed and came crashing on top of her around 5 p.m., according to the Chatham Fire Department. First responders found…

Five Shark Sightings in Cape Cod

A total of five shark sightings occurred in Cape Cod Sunday.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker on Tuesday rolled out a $1 million emergency loan fund to assist small businesses impacted by the tornadoes and severe weather that slammed Cape Cod last week. The Cape Cod Small Business Emergency Loan Fund will provide emergency capital to local small businesses to assist with operations and repairs, Baker’s office said in a press release.

A third tornado hit Cape Cod last week, the National Weather Service confirmed Monday, this one touching down at the same time as another tornado. Officials had previously said that two tornadoes tore through part of the region on July 23.

Material from a downed transformer spilled into a Cape Cod pond, prompting a hazardous materials incident. Police in Chatham, Massachusetts, declared a hazmat incident at Little Mill Pond Wednesday afternoon.

A tussle between two great white sharks was caught on camera, and experts intend to examine the footage to learn more about their behavior. The video recorded by Nate Jensen shows a smaller great white shark making contact with a larger great white shark off the coast of Chatham, Massachusetts. The second shark swims away in the footage.

A tussle between two great white sharks was caught on camera, and experts intend to examine the footage to learn more about their behavior. The video recorded by Nate Jensen shows a smaller great white shark making contact with a larger great white shark off the coast of Chatham, Massachusetts. The second shark swims away in the footage.

Two sharks were seen tussling in waters off of Chatham, Massachusetts.

A great white shark got up close and personal with a GoPro camera off Cape Cod.
The video camera caught the inquisitive shark swimming off the coast of Chatham, Massachusetts.
Footage released by the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy during a research trip on June 30 shows the shark circling the GoPro, at one point swimming toward and bumping the camera.

Video shows a great white shark eating a seal off the coast of Chatham, Massachusetts.

Police say a New Hampshire driver faces numerous charges after leading police on a chase that neared speeds of 100 mph through Maine’s Oxford County.

Voters in a Massachusetts town have narrowly rejected a proposal to spend $100,000 on a shark barrier at a beach where children take swimming lessons. The Cape Cod Times reports that Chatham town meeting voters on Tuesday rejected the article 113-112.