They came together Sunday evening not far from Port Townsend. Why, no one can say for sure, except the participants ...

On Saturday, the endangered J pod made a stop in Puget Sound for the first time since April. The Orca Network’s Whale Sighting Network confirmed the Southern Resident orca pod was seen between Whidbey ...

An underwater hydrophone at Bush Point on Whidbey Island is transmitting the noise beneath the surface of Puget Sound right now. Scientists installed it to pick up sounds from the Southern Resident ...

Washington’s Puget Sound hosts three pods of southern resident orcas, and half a million people come to view them each year. Their population has declined over the past two decades; in 2005, they were ...

Starting May 16, hundreds of thousands of ORCA transit customers across the Puget Sound region will have access to a new website, smartphone app, and real-time value loading for their ORCA cards.

An orca has been filmed swimming under a boat with its belly up during an incredible close encounter in Puget Sound. The video was posted to TikTok by Piper, who goes by @disgruntledlumpfish, and ...

SEATTLE (AP) — Puget Sound's endangered resident orcas have welcomed yet another new addition. The Center for Whale Research in Friday Harbor confirmed on its Facebook page this weekend that a newborn ...

Another Southern Resident orca hasn’t been seen in months, with researchers fearing the worst for a population that continues to struggle. According to the Center for Whale Research, L41 was last seen ...

PUGET SOUND, Wash. (KING) – An iconic Pacific Northwest species continues to struggle, and the concerns continue to rise as a recently born orca calf went missing and is presumed to be dead. The new ...

SEATTLE — While Sound Transit continues working on the Eastside light rail extension set to begin opening next year, it also announced a plan for new ticket vending machines and even a mobile payment ...

With only 73 southern resident orca whales remaining — 25 to 30 of which are potentially reproductive females — about a third of them with the potential to rebound the population are not reproducing, ...