Fran the whale was the most popular humpback in California. For years, the 17-year-old whale gained the love of tourists and whale watchers in the state. She became the most photographed and most ...

Ships are hitting and killing whales off the California coast at some of the highest rates in more than a decade, according to data obtained and tabulated by the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit. The ...

OAKLAND, Calif.— The Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the Earth sued the Trump administration today for failing to analyze how California shipping lane designations harm whales and sea ...

PORT ANGELES — The carcasses of two humpback whales found this summer on an Olympic National Park beach showed signs of being hit by ships. A biologist for Cascadia Research of Olympia, Annie Douglas, ...

VICTORIA — An advocate for whales says many collisions between vessels and the animals are likely undetected or unreported as Fisheries Department investigates another death of a humpback whale off ...

Chase, Owen Narrative of the most extraordinary and distressing shipwreck of the whale-ship Essex of Nantucket which was attacked & finally destroyed by a large spermaceti-whale in the Pacific ocean .