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SOUTH YARMOUTH — A 49-year-old Brewster man was arrested late Friday after he passed out in his car in a McDonald's drive-thru line, according to Yarmouth Deputy Police Chief Steven Xiarhos.

Beginning this week, NStar will use helicopters equipped with high-resolution cameras to inspect electrical equipment between Bourne and Wellfleet, the company said in a statement.

All but unknown to national policymakers when it started in 1994, Silent Spring Institute immediately won the hearts — and funding — of state legislators impressed by its determination to explore possible environmental links to the Cape's...

BARNSTABLE — Chalk one up for both sides in the ongoing war over two regional energy agencies.

MASHPEE — Mashpee became the latest town on Cape Cod to regulate its use of nitrogen-based fertilizers after town meeting approved a new bylaw Monday night.

SOUTH DENNIS — Barnstable County's sole medical marijuana dispensary will be stocked with pot grown over the bridge in an industrial park in Plymouth.

PLYMOUTH — The trial of the four anti-nuclear activists, charged with trespassing on the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station property on Mother's Day, continued Monday with Plymouth District Court Judge James Sullivan listening to testimony from state...

WEST YARMOUTH – Being one of only eight women among 600 NStar lineworkers is nothing new for Christine Ratches.

All but unknown to national policymakers when it started in 1994, Silent Spring Institute immediately won the hearts – and funding – of state legislators impressed by its determination to explore possible environmental links to the Cape's...

On today's CapeCast: We go in search of the three oldest gravestones on Cape Cod, all dating from 1683, and find out how settlers dealt with their dead before stones became the norm.