Cape Cod

The U.S. Coast Guard and local harbormasters are searching for a plane that may have crashed off the coast of Cape Cod. The downed plane — a white and beige Piper 28 aircraft — was reported missing off Nauset Beach in Orleans, Massachusetts. A male pilot was on board, the Coast Guard said. The original call was made to the…

A rare two-headed diamondback terrapin turtle is alive and kicking — with all six of its legs — at the Birdsey Cape Wildlife Center in Massachusetts after hatching two weeks ago.

Last month, the Cape Cod Air Force Station changed its name to the Cape Cod Space Force Station and introduced Space Force members to the roster. That one word replacement adds a whole new dimension to the mission of the station.

Now that shark season is officially here, researchers on Cape Cod are busy trying to find a way to predict when the animals are swimming close to the shore.

A commercial lobster diver was injured when he said he was swallowed by a humpback whale off the coast of Cape Cod Friday. Michael Packard was in the whale’s closed mouth for 30-40 seconds, he said.

A massive shark seen on video lurking around a tall ship off the coast of Massachusetts has social media in an uproar.

Don’t be alarmed by a low-flying helicopter over Cape Cod in the next month or so. Starting Monday, a helicopter will drop oral rabies vaccine baits intended for raccoons and other wildlife over portions of Barnstable and Plymouth counties, the Cape Cod Times reports. The distribution of the vaccine baits to the north and west of the Cape Cod...

A popular Cape Cod ice cream shop that reopened just in time for Mother’s Day weekend was forced to scale back to appointment-only, the owner says, after some customers refused to practice social distancing and harassed a teenage girl working at the company. Polar Cave Ice Cream in Mashpee, Massachusetts, is a Cape Cod classic, but it had been...

Mourners said their final goodbyes Monday to Saoirse Kennedy Hill, the granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy who died last week on Cape Cod at the age of 22. The mass for Kennedy Hill was held at Our Lady of Victory Church in Centerville Monday morning, four days after she was found unresponsive at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.

A group of adults and kids that was fishing off Orleans Saturday got a big surprise when a great white shark jumped from the water feet from their boat.

A family was fishing off the coast of Cape Cod when a massive great white shark jumped from the water just feet from their boat.

Police in a Cape Cod town are investigating after three fake legs were placed near a memorial for the victim of a fatal shark attack last summer. Wellfleet police told the Cape Cod Times that the fake legs were placed near a memorial stone at the town-owned Newcomb Hollow Beach for Arthur Medici, who died last September when he was...

Already this summer, more than 100 sharks have been spotted off Cape Cod, including 33 in the past week alone. On at least five occasions in the past week, beaches on the Cape have been closed to swimming temporarily due to shark sightings near shore.

The man accusing Kevin Spacey of groping him at a Nantucket, Massachusetts bar has voluntarily dismissed his civil lawsuit against the “House of Cards” actor. The lawsuit was filed last week and sought damages for alleged emotional injuries and mental distress. The civil complaint voluntarily dismissed “all counts thereof, with prejudice and without costs to any party.”

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.

The man who accused Kevin Spacey of sexually assaulting him in a Nantucket bar has filed a civil lawsuit to demand a jury trial in the case.

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.

Animal rescue volunteers say close to 190 sea turtles have died of exposure after washing ashore in frigid conditions on Cape Cod. The Cape Cod Times reports that low temperatures and high winds combined to kill most of the 50 turtles that washed up Thursday in Brewster, Orleans and Eastham on the lower part of the peninsula.

A mourning father in Brazil took to Facebook to express his grief over the death of his 26-year-old son, who was killed during a shark attack in Cape Cod.

A man boogie boarding off a Cape Cod beach was attacked by a shark on Saturday and died later at a hospital, becoming the state’s first shark attack fatality in more than 80 years.