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

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 ...

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 Atmospher… ...

Massachusetts Nantucket group appeals to Supreme Court to end offshore wind projects and protect endangered whales 'The federal government has lost sight of its statutory obligations to conserve ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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

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.

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 ...

The whale turned out to be a capsized fishing boat that the man — who had lost his cellphone when his boat tipped over — had been using to stay above the water as he tried to attract attention ...