Whales

An administrative law judge has recommended that a Native American tribe on the remote northwestern tip of Washington's Olympic Peninsula once again be allowed to hunt gray whales — a major step in its decades-long effort to resume the ancient practice

The Bellingham Herald reports mother and grandmother L47, or Marina as she was also known, was missing from the center's 2021 census, and she hasn't been spotted since Feb. 27.

An Oregon research team is on its way to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to look for a potentially new species of beaked whale. These shy whales live in remote parts of the ocean, hunting squid at extreme depths.

Researchers say the decline in resident killer whale populations along the West Coast is due not only to various long-term human influences, but to direct human-caused harm, as well.

As this year’s Dungeness crab fishery approaches, so does the risk of whale entanglements in crab gear.

Oregon is about to issue a new license plate featuring a gray whale.

What happens to whales' health when we fill their habitat with noisy ship traffic?

The humpback whale whose carcass washed ashore near Arch Cape over the weekend, and then left with the high tide, is back again.

Humpback whales have been spotted feeding in the Columbia River.