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CAMP EDWARDS — A prescribed burn is scheduled today on Camp Edwards at Joint Base Cape Cod, Emily Kelley, a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts National Guard's Natural Resources Program, said.

Because of a reporting error, the incorrect first name for a character, a real-life poet, in the Lyric Stage Company of Boston's production of "Dear Elizabeth" was given in a review that appeared on Page C2 of Friday's Times.

WELLFLEET — Cape Cod National Seashore Superintendent George Price is proposing to increase entrance fees to the park, possibly beginning next year.

Although it won't have the legislative impact that the binding marijuana-related ballot questions had in 2008 and 2012, voters in the nine towns that make up the 4th Barnstable District will weigh in Nov 4 on whether marijuana should be legalized in...

With Election Day just a week away, the anti-herbicide group GreenCape released the results of its recent survey asking candidates for state office for their stances on NStar's use of chemicals to control vegetation under power lines.

BARNSTABLE — A homeless woman is the fifth person to be charged in connection with a home invasion Sept. 9 on Hiramar Road in Hyannis.

FALMOUTH — An East Falmouth man is facing criminal charges after police reports say he was found with marijuana and heroin in his pocket after driving into a utility pole.

Tina Meybohm was wheeling along the second-floor corridor at the EPOCH Senior Living in Harwich one quiet Tuesday when she was approached by a handful of smiling women who presented her with a colorful arrangement of flowers.

On today's CapeCast: If you dare, click on the video and take a chilling tour through the Harvest of Horrors at Tony Andrews Farm in Falmouth. But if you scare easily, don't watch!

Ronald Beaty is concerned that creating an unfriendly business atmosphere will guarantee the ongoing exodus of young people off the Cape to towns where they can find affordable housing and work.