Nantucket News

A New Bedford-based fishing boat capsized and sank last year because it became unstable when a full fishing net was being lowered onto the deck, the Coast Guard said in a report released today.

Martha's Vineyard Hospital continues to weather the economic storm that has buffeted other medical centers across the country.

Nantucket Cottage Hospital will provide a free H1N1 flu-vaccine clinic for children 5-12 who have not already been vaccinated at 10 a.m. Saturday at Nantucket Elementary School, 30 Surfside Road.

I applaud Barry Thompson of Hyannis for making one of the more honest arguments against the wind farm we have seen throughout the Cape Wind debate .

Nantucket police arrested a third suspected cocaine dealer on Friday, the latest in a months-long investigation with the Cape and Islands District Attorney's Office Drug Task Force.

Standing before the School Committee 34 weeks pregnant last week, Nantucket Teachers Association co-president Megan McNeely pressed the administration to follow through on promises to ramp up preventive efforts against the H1N1 "swine flu" epidemic sweeping the state.

Some of the Nantucket Police Department's staple programs could be on the chopping block this budget season, with the summer special officers, beach patrols, the canine program, the school resource officer - even the entire detectives unit - now being considered for elimination.

Four island youths have been arrested for stealing booze, cash and cameras from the Nantucket Yacht Club this week.

Cape Wind Associates LLC faces yet another hurdle in its eight-year quest to build a wind farm in Nantucket Sound.

Two Jamaican men were arrested over the weekend and charged with cocaine trafficking after police seized more than eight ounces of cocaine through controlled buys and a search warrant executed at a home near Nantucket Memorial Airport.

Nantucket has invested more than $70 million in public infrastructure projects over the past three years, yet only a fraction of that money has gone to local tradesmen and builders at a time when they are all but desperate for work, as residential construction has almost completely dried up and left them scrambling.

Do you know a Nantucketer serving in the military in Iraq or Afghanistan? Do you know a Nantucketer who is serving in the military in Iraq or Afghanistan? Please let us know who they are! The Inquirer and Mirror would like to recognize those islanders who are serving their country in next week's edition, which will hit newsstands just after ...

The nation's first offshore wind farm faces more delay after a Massachusetts official said two Indian tribes' claim to Nantucket Sound needed more study.

Fallout from the Madaket landfill's $2.7 million Solid Waste Enterprise Fund deficit is seeping into Nantucket's classrooms.

From a blustery perch over a Cape Cod beach, Chuckie Green gestures toward a stretch of horizon where he says construction of the nation's first offshore wind farm would destroy his Indian tribe's religion.

The world-renowned Nantucket bay scallop. Commercial scalloping season opens Monday, with predictions of a fruitful harvest.

Convicted murderer Thomas Toolan's bid for a new trial in Nantucket Superior Court has been rejected.

The board of directors of the Theatre Workshop of Nantucket announced last Wednesday night at their annual meeting that they are no closer to finding the 53-year old theatre company a permanent home than they were a year ago.

Nantucket's Fiscal Year 2010 Preliminary Real Estate and Personal Property tax bills were issued Friday, Oct.

Jim Perelman, an island court officer and caterer, has announced his intention to enter the Nantuck et County Sheriff race next year, becoming the first known candidate who will challenge incum bent Richard Bretschneider.