Residents hew closer to coastlines, from Central California to southeast Alaska, where salmon congregate ... their saddle patches. A third type of killer whale roams the Pacific, but less is ...

Many travelers make the trek to Alaska for two things ... North Pacific humpbacks and orcas are the two most common types of whales migrating through these calm waters. Humpbacks feed off krill ...

The fin whale that washed ashore near Tony Knowles Coastal Trail in November will be moved and taken to a museum on Friday.

Thousands of humpback whales travel from a vast area where they feed in the Gulf of Alaska to a more restricted area in Hawaii, where they breed. There, in the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale ...

Whalers named the species thinking that these were the “right whales ... Pacific right whales in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska. But threats to the whales in Alaska are mounting in many areas.