T-46, an orca active off the Pacific Northwest, is presumed dead. Public outcry over her pod's capture in 1976 led Washington State to ban killer whale captures. The great matriarch who once swam ...

Orcas Island Pottery. Orcas Island Pottery There’s also Orcas Island Pottery, the oldest studio pottery in the Pacific Northwest. It’s not as easily accessible as Forest Ceramic, but the ...

According to the Orca Network – a Washington nonprofit – the salmon ... Puget Sound and southern British Columbia, along the Pacific Northwest coast, and down as far south as Monterey Bay, ...

People have taken many steps in recent decades to help the Pacific Northwest’s endangered ... charismatic population of orcas that frequent the waters between Washington state and the Canadian ...

Inbreeding among an endangered population of orcas off the coasts of British Columbia, Washington and ... of orcas living in the Pacific Ocean off the northwest coast of North America, are so ...

The San Juan Islands Visitors Bureau says the best time to see the an assortment of whales is between April and October. Many ...

Scientists have documented what might be the first case of friendly interactions between killer whales and smaller cetaceans. Here's what they think is going on.

saving food for later or to share it with another orca. The first sighting happened on Oct. 25 at Point No Point, Washington, where photographer Jim Pasola captured a shot of J27 Blackberry with a ...

A new orca calf has been born in the Pacific Northwest, and this baby boasts ... whales that were the very last ones to be captured in Washington state,” Gless said. “Back in 1976, there ...