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Heritage Museums & Gardens presented a new road plan Wednesday night, but the results were similar — lots of questions, a sprinkling of outrage from neighbors and ringing endorsements from business leaders.

Adam Chaprales did not realize the level of concern over soaring drug addiction in the region when he started his campaign for state representative of the 2nd Barnstable District.

New Town Administrator Rae Ann Palmer will begin Nov. 3 and earn an annual salary of $120,000, according to Truro Selectman Jay Coburn, chairman of the board.

Four nuclear activists from the Cape will go to trial Friday in Plymouth District Court for trespassing onto the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station property on Mother’s Day to raise public awareness about the dangers the plant poses to the region.

The timing seemed appropriate. As a long-running paint job backed up traffic approaching the Sagamore Bridge, Gov.

A 22-year-old Sandwich man who was honorably discharged from the Army about five weeks ago pleaded not guilty today in Barnstable District Court to a charge he robbed Eastern Bank in Marstons Mills at gunpoint Tuesday while wearing a skeleton mask.

On today's CapeCast: Work has begun on the Mitchell River Bridge in Chatham--see cool construction action and find out about the detour!

HYANNIS – Like Cape Cod's shifting shoreline, a lot has changed since the Massachusetts Ocean Management Plan was first released in 2009.

MARSTONS MILLS — Barnstable police are investigating a robbery at the Eastern Bank on Old Post Road.

BUZZARDS BAY — Three men were released on their own recognizance Tuesday after arraignment on charges they damaged fall-themed decorations along Main Street and knocked down several potted plants, including one within view of the Bourne police...