The Center for Whale Research’s latest census shows just 74 of the orcas remain. They need more food, space and less ...

(Editor's Note: This story has been altered. The original version of this story misidentified Terry Wright of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission.) Imagine someone coming to your neighborhood ...

About 50 volunteers gathered at Puget Sound Public Farms in Stanwood Saturday, Oct. 18, with a mission to improve the ...

Monika Wieland Shields, Director of the Orca Behavior Institute, has observed orcas in the Salish Sea, a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean located in the Canadian province of British Columbia and the ...

A study from the University of Washington confirms what scientists have long speculated about how marine vessel noise interferes with whales. Female orcas with young calves avoid areas where boat ...

When an orca hunts salmon, it clicks and buzzes. It sends a beam of sounds from its nasal passages into the murky depths in hopes that the sound waves will bounce back and reveal the location of its ...

OPALCO's proposed tidal energy project in the Salish Sea faces opposition due to concerns about its impact on endangered killer whales. The cooperative argues the turbine is necessary to prevent ...

Authorities say boaters who encounter orcas at sea should try their best to sail away, remembering that they’re guests passing through orcas’ critically needed habitat—and that that despite their name ...

The Miami Seaquarium announced in March that the orca was set to be returned to the waters in the Pacific Northwest after 53 years in captivity Jeff Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Lolita, ...