Massachusetts health officials have announced a second confirmed case of the mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis virus in the state.

Diseases spread by mosquitoes are in the spotlight again because of recent U.S. illnesses.

CheapInsurance.com compiled a ranking of the most popular car colors in Florida using data from Edmunds.

A Massachusetts individual has been arraigned on charges including assault with the intent to murder after six people were stabbed in separate attacks.

A 19-year-old Apopka man died early Sunday when the car he was driving struck a concrete pole near Plymouth, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

An unexploded World War II bomb has been safely transported through the eerily empty streets of the southwestern English port city of Plymouth.

The decline of one of the rarest whales in the world appears to be slowing, but scientists warn the giant animals still face existential threats from warming oceans, ship collisions and entanglement in fishing gear.

A coalition of environmental groups is calling on the federal government to enact emergency rules to protect a vanishing species of whale from lethal collisions with large ships.

A review of the status of a vanishing species of whale found that the animal’s population is in worse shape than previously thought.

A federal appeals court has blocked proposed restrictions aimed at saving a vanishing species of whale, saying they could put thousands of commercial fishermen out of work.

The U.S. government has denied a request from a group of environmental organizations to immediately apply proposed ship-speed restrictions in an effort to save a vanishing species of whale.

Federal officials say the fading North Atlantic right whale will remain protected under the Endangered Species Act and requires a series of protective steps to stave off extinction.

The federal government has outlined a strategy to try to protect an endangered species of whale while also developing offshore wind power off the East Coast.

The decline of an endangered species of whale slowed last year as it lost about 2% of its population.

Native Americans in Massachusetts are calling for a boycott of a popular living history museum featuring Colonial reenactors portraying life in Plymouth, the famous English settlement founded by the Pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower.

A whale breached and landed on the bow of a small boat near a Plymouth, Massachusetts beach Sunday morning and it was all caught on camera.

A crewless robotic boat retracing the 1620 sea voyage of the Mayflower has landed near Plymouth Rock.

The federal government is close to releasing new rules that the shipping industry might have to comply with to help protect a vanishing species of whale.

A crash on West Orange Blossom Trail at Albrecht Avenue prompted a roadblock there Sunday afternoon, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

Authors of a new scientific study say greater reliance on genetic testing of baby whales and their mothers may help save a rare species from extinction.

Members of Native American tribes from around New England are gathering in the seaside town where the Pilgrims settled — not to give thanks but to mourn.

A federal court is allowing a team of environmental groups to continue with a lawsuit against the U.S. government.

Shares of Rivian Automotive jumped in their debut Wednesday, rising as much as 53% as investors look for the next big winner in the electric vehicle market.

A group of scientists and ocean life advocates says a type of whale that is one of the rarest marine mammals in the world lost nearly 10% of its population last year.

Britain’s police watchdog says it has launched an investigation into why a 22-year-old man who fatally shot five people in southwestern England was given back his confiscated gun and gun license.

A young man who killed five people and then took his own life in Britain’s first mass shooting in over a decade had complained online about difficulties meeting women and being “beaten down” by life.

Police in southwest England say six people were killed, including the suspected shooter, in the city of Plymouth in a “serious firearms incident” that wasn’t terror-related.

The Mayflower had a few false starts before its trailblazing sea voyage to America more than 400 years ago.

More than four centuries after the Mayflower departed from England on a historic sea journey to America, another trailblazing vessel with the same name has set off to retrace the voyage.

Archaeologists are excavating a grassy hilltop overlooking iconic Plymouth Rock one last time before a historical park is built on the site.

The Mayflower Autonomous Ship during a special ceremony to mark its launch in Plymouth south west England, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. Dignitaries, seafarers and scientists gathered in Plymouth, England, on Wednesday to mark the 400th anniversary of the departure of the Mayflower, the ship that carried a group of Puritan settlers to a new life across the Atlantic Ocean. (AP Photo/Susie Blann)