Other recent shark sightings on the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app include an 8-foot shark spotted in ...

W hether you fly in on Cape Air or take the ferry like the rest of us, dining on Nantucket is all about fresh, local seafood, ...

"They've been hanging on by their flipper-tips for tens of decades." Experts baffled by unprecedented behavior of critically ...

Sharks chomping on seals off Massachusetts, feasting on dead whale off Long Island: ‘Right in time for the 50th anniversary ...

Whale watchers got a big surprise when they encountered two great white sharks in the water off the North Shore.

A new report says Nantucket's health department will soon begin testing the island's sewage for a range of hard drugs to find ...

When author Peter Benchley’s 1974 book was going to print, he needed to choose a title. He has juggled various titles — ...

Nantucket was now the whaling capital of the world, but there were more than a few islanders who had never glimpsed a whale. Nantucket had forged an economic system that no longer depended on the ...

About ACK for Whales. ACK for Whales is a group of Nantucket community members who are concerned about the negative impacts of offshore wind development off the south shores of our beloved Island.

A NOAA whale-strike reduction rule awaiting final White House approval would render a $286 million blow to Nantucket’s economy by slowing essential ferry traffic between the island community and ...

Mr. Richards is a staff editor for Times Opinion. He reported from Nantucket and Cape Cod Bay, Mass. The North Atlantic right whale is highly endangered, its survival as a species in doubt. There ...

NANTUCKET, Mass. – Two endangered North Atlantic right whales have been spotted off Massachusetts with entanglements that could potentially be life-threatening to the massive mammals.