The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is developing a plan to protect Southern Resident orcas, which were added to the ...

TACOMA, Wash. — A pod of orca whales was spotted playing in Commencement Bay near Tacoma. Video shared with KOMO News by ...

The Fourth of July on Orcas Island isn’t your typical patriotic celebration. While there will be plenty of American flags ...

I thank the many Oregon and Washington legislators who have issued statements opposing the ending of the agreement and who ...

Footage captures a pair of orcas nibbling each other's tongues in the Kvænangen fjords in northern Norway. Scientists think ...

Under the terms of a settlement agreement, there could soon be new federal protections for the Chinook, the largest of all ...

Dubbed "allokelping," it might be a unique cultural phenomenon that's as endangered as the orca population itself ...

The Center for Biological Diversity and allies today secured court-ordered deadlines requiring the National Marine Fisheries Service to determine whether spring-run Chinook salmon in Oregon, ...

A new study, released Monday, is investigating rare occurrences of orcas offering humans food offerings and what that ...

Scientists have spotted a subset of killer whales using seaweed to scratch each other’s backs, marking the first known ...

We were amazed when we first noticed this behavior,” said Michael Weiss, research director at the Center for Whale Research in the U.S. state of Washington. What started as a puzzling observation in ...

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