Representative William Keating News

A field hearing scheduled for Boston this spring will be held instead in Washington, D.C., a spokeswoman for the House Homeland Security Committee confirmed Thursday.

Everyone is talking about the rare influx of snowy owls in New England. Given the unprecedented migration, many people, like the folks on West Dennis Beach, have been lucky enough to have sighted one of these beautiful birds in the wild for the very first time.

The Bourne Democratic Town Committee will hold a forum Saturday on flood insurance, with updates on measures to delay and amend the federal law that has drawn controversy for widening flood zone maps and threatening to raise insurance rates.

Not long after starting work at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Mark Alliegro's wife was opening a surf clam for the couple's research when someone walked inside the Marine Resources Center and cracked a joke.

For all the legislation, all the treatment options and all the rhetoric swirling around the drug abuse epidemic across the nation and on Cape Cod, the organizers of a family wellness forum hit a simple, eight-word message Tuesday night: "It's not going to start at my house."

Members of the US House of Representatives on Friday reached a tentative compromise on a flood-insurance bill that would benefit thousands of South Shore homeowners, and floor vote is expected in early March, two Massachusetts legislators said.

Bristol County Sheriff Tom Hodgson has endorsed John Chapman, a Republican candidate challenging incumbent William Keating in Massachusetts' 9th Congressional District.

Members of Massachusetts' all-Democratic congressional delegation are stockpiling campaign cash as they head into another election year, with many relying heavily on contributions from political action committees as they try to hold off Republicans intent on breaking their grip.

Who: The event is free and open to the public. U.S. Rep. William Keating, D-Mass., is the keynote speaker.

Republican Vincent Cogliano Jr. said he will seek the Massachusetts 9th Congressional District seat now held by Bourne Democrat William Keating.

Congressmen William R. Keating and Stephen F. Lynch together pushed Probation jobs for 16 candidates since 1998 - the majority during their time in the state Senate, a Herald analysis of agency "sponsor" lists showed.

In just one Cape Cod community, the price of opiate addiction seems to be everywhere.

Next week, the U.S. House of Representatives will take up a bill to delay some stiff increases in flood insurance rates so federal authorities can look at the affordability of the premiums and accuracy of recently updated flood maps.