The endangered southern resident killer whales that visit Puget Sound were listed for protection under the federal Endangered ...

Salmon are struggling to survive. So are the families of endangered southern resident orcas, with a population of just 73, ...

The documentary tells the story of the last southern resident killer whale held in captivity, and the efforts of two Lummi women to bring the orca home to a net pen sanctuary.

The sight of an orca clinging to her dead calf for a heartwrenching reason turned out to be a way of coping with loss, just ...

Unlike Biggs orcas that prey primarily on pinnipeds (i.e., seals & sea lions), SRKWs eat fish and prefer to eat Pacific Northwest salmon ... least of which being the Washington Wildlife and ...

Unlike Biggs orcas that prey primarily on pinnipeds (i.e., seals & sea lions), SRKWs eat fish and prefer to eat Pacific Northwest salmon ... grant programs — not the least of which being the ...

(CNN) — Tahlequah, the mother orca denoted as J35 who captured ... was first spotted on December 20 in the Puget Sound area on Washington state’s northwest coast by members of the public.

Backbone Campaign interpreted Tahlequah’s heroic journey in 2018 as a call to action. It turned its energy, creative tools ...

In 2018, an orca in the Pacific Ocean’s Southern Resident population named Tahlequah refused to let go of her dead calf, ...

Under a new law, Washington boaters must ... about 2,500 of which live in the eastern North Pacific Ocean, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). But the southern ...

On Wednesday, the James Beard Awards, or as Seattle Refined put it, the "Oscars of the culinary world," released its ...