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TheDay.com: Thirty-five marine facilities across the state will receive more than $1 million in funding under the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection‘s (DEEP) annual Federal Clean Vessel Act program, the agency announced Wednesday. More than 20 southeastern...

Newburyport News: The Coast Guard spent almost 3 hours on Sunday, July 17, searching for the owner of an innertube after the flotation device was spotted off the coast by beachgoers on Salisbury Beach, Massachusetts. But according to Petty...

CapeCodOnline: Some beaches in Oak Bluffs and West Tisbury have been reopened after being closed last week due to high enterococci bacteria counts. All Oak Bluffs beaches except Medeiros Cove have been reopened, according to the Oak Bluffs Board...

Salem News: A boater from Wakefield, Massachusetts, is facing drunken-boating charges after police say he crashed into another boat moored in Beverly Harbor last Wednesday evening. Eric Romeo, 50, admitted to police that he’d had three shots of Southern...

The Coast Guard has responded to reports of a downed private aircraft in the vicinity of Matinicus Island, Maine, Sunday evening, July 17. Coast Guard Station Rockland received a call from Penobscot Air Control relaying information that a small...

Boston.com: One man died and another was seriously injured when their speedboat capsized yesterday afternoon near Boston Light, State Police said. State Police spokesman David Procopio said the two men were ejected from the 27- to 30-foot-long speedboat, which...

Nantucket Inquirer & Mirror: Nearly a year after a hit-and-run boating collision off Madaket that sent 2 people to the hospital, a suspect was finally charged in Nantucket District Court Monday, but declined to appear for his arraignment, drawing...

EastBayRI: Action against a Libby Lane resident accused of illegally installing a large dock system on the Kickemuit River is picking up. The state Coastal Resources Management Council may hold a hearing and issue a removal order later this...

Cape Cod Times: Chatham Harbormaster Stuart Smith was deploying shark research equipment Wednesday (July 13) afternoon around Monomoy Island when a 10-foot great white shark surfaced next to his vessel. State Division of Marine Fisheries biologist John Chisholm was...

Block Island Times: A clogged pump on July 7 caused the sewer system to overflow on a section of Ocean Avenue. Sewage flowed across the road and ran into the inner ponds. The town has closed to entire pond...