Cape Cod's water quality remains a top environmental problem, with significant worries about the health of coastal embayments and freshwater ponds. At the same time, the region's public drinking water ...

The Cape Cod Commission has unveiled a new draft plan aimed at supporting the health of Cape Cod’s many freshwater ponds and lakes and is inviting public review and comment. The Cape Cod Freshwater ...

There are few traditional recipes that include cod and do not begin, even before turning on the fire, with an ancient and methodical gesture: submerging the fish in cold water. Desalting cod is an ...

The Barnstable County Department of Health and Environment is offering free water quality testing for private well owners across Cape Cod, according to a community announcement. As of Aug. 4, 2025, ...

Deep in Earth’s past, an icy landscape became a seascape as the ice melted and the oceans rose off what is now the northeastern United States. Nearly 50 years ago, a U.S. government ship searching for ...

A woman was pulled alive from the Cape Cod Canal Thursday afternoon after police responded to a call of someone in the water. Police say the woman was unable to swim to shore by herself, and that ...

Pasta with salt cod is one of those dishes that just brings back tender memories. You know, like a big Italian holiday meal ...

ENDED UP HERE. CAPE COD IS NO STRANGER TO HAVING ANIMALS BEACHED ON ITS SHORES. IN FACT, IT SEES THE MOST FREQUENT DOLPHIN STRANDINGS OF ANYWHERE IN THE U.S. BUT TODAY’S STRANDING EVENT WAS THE ...

The company that owns the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, Holtec International, has filed an appeal seeking to discharge radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay. Last month, the state denied Holtec a ...