We talk with the founder of the Provincetown Jazz Festival.

We talk to the director of the Woods Hole Film Festival.

Author Betty Morningstar talks about her book.

A rare tropical seabird has spent weeks charming its way around Scituate Harbor, perching on cars, deck railings, and even the heads of beachgoers and their dogs. Bridled Terns almost never show up in Massachusetts outside of hurricanes, let alone linger all summer acting like a friendly parrot. This week we dig into the sighting history, compare it to a more standoffish bird that's been working the coast of Maine and New Hampshire since 2024, and consider a few Cape reports from earlier this summer that may be connected. Plus a theory involving a marooned sailor and a rottweiler named Flotsam.

With any luck, your veggie garden is producing tomatoes, zucchini, beans and cucumbers and your flowering shrubs and plants are weathering the drought.

For many years now, anglers have been catching brown bullhead in Lake Memphremagog that are riddled with lesions and tumors. Now, scientists say they've confirmed it's a rare kind of contagious cancer.

The Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center argues the federal program pulls state resources away from the public school system.

For more than a decade, there's been something fishy going on in a lake that straddles Vermont and the province of Quebec. It involves cancer, a kind of catfish, and — possibly — clues about how tumors metastasize.