Cascadia Research Collective co-founder and senior research biologist John Calambokidis said the Samish Island fin whale didn’t show signs of blunt-force trauma from a vessel but it did seem to have ...

Local residents and volunteers gathered Friday morning on the shore of Samish Bay to try to move the carcass of the 40-ton ...

Hundreds descended on a quiet beach for what would likely be a once-in-a-lifetime viewing. Then the realities of a giant ...

The male is the 18th whale to die in Washington waters in 2026 and the first fin whale, an endangered animal that is rarely ...

Only two places in the world allow tourists to enter the water with the ocean’s apex predator. But the safety of both species ...

Orca watching in the Salish Sea has been on my bucket list for just about my whole life, and since Port Townsend, Washington, is my favorite small town on the west coast, I recently decided to embark ...