I’m walking the back roads of Truro with my friend Nicole Cormier, who works as a dietician and is studying herbalism. We’re looking for something called Aronia which grows dark purple almost black berries.

Back on September 29, a boatload of birders clutching backpacks and sleeping bags headed out of Hyannis at dawn, bound for the continental shelf and its deep, warm water canyons some 130 miles to the south.

Time now for a Cape Cod Notebook. This week, Wellfleet journalist Seth Rolbein talks about the restoration of wetlands in Harwich.

This time of year, spiny dogfish are swimming in the water off Cape Cod and the great shearwater seabird is also passing through. That combination can be trouble when spiny dogfish gillnet fishermen bait their nets.

The postcard featured on this episode of The Garden is from Style.

Two days after she pleaded no contest to a single count of criminal solicitation, Hantz Marconi’s law license was restored by a special panel of judges on Thursday. This clears the way for her to hear cases on the state Supreme Court again, though she could still face other disciplinary measures.

The cost of health care for pets has been surging. It has almost doubled over the past five years. What is behind these rising costs?

Meet a previously incarcerated mother who works with young people to prevent gun violence in Chicago, one of several American cities where the homicide rate has significantly dropped in recent years.