Cook Inlet beluga whales, an endangered Alaskan population of about 300, use distinct call types for different activities.

When local transit agencies announced they were bringing credit card readers to the region’s buses and trains, it was ...

Endangered pilot whales are calling louder to compete with ship noise, but researchers say signals may already be at their ...

At Point Robinson Park on Mother’s Day, children tugged strings across the beach, hoping the sky would catch their kites.

Officials say that Pierce County’s time will come, particularly once construction begins on the light-rail extension to ...

Community Transit is now offering small businesses in Snohomish County, Wash., a way to offer employees free transit passes ...

The Kitsap Transit Board of Commissioners received an update about new Tap to Pay options as part of its May 5 regular ...

Only two places in the world allow tourists to enter the water with the ocean’s apex predator. But the safety of both species ...

Newport recently had a couple of unexpected oceanic visitors: two Bigg’s killer whales, looking for a seal meal. The two whales were observed off Yaquina Head near Cobble Beach on April 25, and their ...

In Arctic Norway, swimming with wild orcas is a cold, often unnerving experience — yet, for some, it offers surprising wellness benefits. Orcas often spyhop near boats or divers out of curiosity. In ...

If you suffer from thalassophobia (the fear of deep bodies of water and what might lurk unseen in them) or cetophobia (the fear of whales) then Daniel Kraus’s scientific thriller, Whalefall, might not ...

In a day of sadness and surprise, researchers on Puget Sound on Tuesday found J61, the new calf born to mother orca Tahlequah, had not survived—and that a new calf had also been born to J pod. Lolita, ...