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The state’s top health official will decide whether to accept the recommendation of attorneys to revoke the licenses of Joe’s Lobster Mart, effectively forcing the 43-year-old business to close.

Barnstable High School became Cape Cod’s own Little Havana on Thursday afternoon as a small group of senior softball players from Cuba visited for about two hours, chatting with students and faculty about culture, the Red Sox and even breaking into...

Residents will see a 31 percent hike in their annual sticker fees for use of the town’s trash-disposal area come January, if selectmen vote the list of increases currently before them.

The state’s highest court has affirmed most of the fines against three electric utilities for their response to outages caused by two 2011 storms.

Starting on September 22 the Sagamore Bridge will be reduced to three lanes, one lane for travel onto Cape Cod and two lanes off-Cape so workers can finish the ongoing $12.3 million bridge painting project.

The Hess Mart at 401 South Orleans Road will not appeal a town-ordered, three-day suspension of its off-premise liquor sales license, a company spokesman said Thursday.

Five chairmen of Lower Cape Republican town committees endorsed Mashpee financial consultant Allen Waters on Wednesday in the Cape and Islands state Senate race, choosing him over West Barnstable resident Ronald Beaty as their pick to take on state Sen.

The Cape and Vineyard Electric Cooperative announced last week that nearly 12 megawatts worth of solar energy projects at 17 locations around Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard have been installed in the latest round of projects developed by the...

The 27th annual Provincetown Swim for Life & Paddler Flotilla will draw hundreds of swimmers and boaters Saturday.

Sitting on her deck Thursday afternoon overlooking the rocky outcrops of Manomet Point, Ida Parker shivered at what she called the “crazy, surreal” sight of people swimming in the bay.