Update 3:30 p.m.) A symbol of downtown Nantucket's industrial past will be reduced to rubble after almost a century of ...

Nantucket was now the whaling capital of the world, but there were more than a few islanders who had never glimpsed a whale. Nantucket had forged an economic system that no longer depended on the ...

Mr. Richards is a staff editor for Times Opinion. He reported from Nantucket and Cape Cod Bay, Mass. The North Atlantic right whale is highly endangered, its survival as a species in doubt. There ...

A group of Nantucket, Massachusetts, residents are appealing to the Supreme Court to challenge windmill projects which they argue put endangered whales at risk.

And remember: Nantucket is a summer town, with a season that runs roughly from Memorial Day to Labor Day. A few of these ...

Other recent shark sightings on the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app include an 8-foot shark spotted in ...

One of the critically endangered North Atlantic right whales is expected to die after becoming entangled in fishing gear near Nantucket along with a second whale, the National Oceanic and ...

NANTUCKET, Mass. – Two endangered North Atlantic right whales have been spotted off Massachusetts with entanglements that could potentially be life-threatening to the massive mammals. According ...

North Atlantic right whale No. 5110 was documented with life-threatening line wrapped around its head and body on Dec. 9, 2024, southeast of Nantucket. The three-year-old male has a thick fishing ...

A NOAA whale-strike reduction rule awaiting final White House approval would render a $286 million blow to Nantucket’s economy by slowing essential ferry traffic between the island community and ...

BOSTON (AP) — The sun was starting to dip low on the horizon off Nantucket island when fishing buddies Nicholas Whitbeck and Joe Tormay spotted what they thought was a dead whale.

BOSTON (AP) — The sun was starting to dip low on the horizon off Nantucket island when fishing buddies Nicholas Whitbeck and Joe Tormay spotted what they thought was a dead whale. Squinting ...