From their history and symbolism to stories of ghosts and hauntings, climbing the narrow steps of a lighthouse brings on a special feeling. “All lighthouses are intriguing,” said Judy Oshipp, ...

Winds whipped her skirts and snowflakes pelted her bonnet as Maria Herrick Bray trudged 300 yards through knee-high snowdrifts between the twin lighthouses of Thacher Island, pausing at the bottom to ...

A joint effort to preserve a mammoth lighthouse lens that assisted Cape Ann mariners for more than 120 years, has received a boost through two Community Preservation Act grants, approved in Gloucester ...

Local Colors Artists' Cooperative is featuring a collection of digital photographs of lighthouses printed on canvas, by photographer Jim Sousa. Also featured are Sousa’s unique shadowboxes in which he ...

MAURICE RIVER TWP. — It was an unusually clear day, and visitors had the rare opportunity to see Cape May Point from miles across the bay. More than 1,100 people visited the East Point Lighthouse in ...

GLOUCESTER -- The Gloucester-based lobster boat Anne Rowe ran aground early this morning near the Eastern Point Lighthouse, but none of the three lobstermen aboard were injured, according to ...

GLOUCESTER -- Two women were rescued from Gloucester Harbor on Sunday morning after they were washed off the Dog Bar Breakwater. Police said they were called at around 10:45 a.m. to the breakwater, ...