Before moving to Whidbey Island, Cindi Rausch’s closest whale encounter was with Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. Since 2021, the ...

The black and slightly orange Bigg’s killer whale was spotted swimming with its mother, Sedna, in the Salish Sea ...

Washingtonians recall Ralph Munro’s distinctive political advertisements, which featured 30 seconds of bagpipe music followed by a brief tagline stating, “This interlude brought to you by the Munro ...

The orca calf belongs to a family of transient killer whales, or “Bigg’s” killer whales, and was first spotted in the Salish ...

Ralph Davies Munro passed away March 20, 2025. That day, a new born baby orca was sighted swimming with her mother, Sedna in the Juan de Fuca Strait. Tagged with the name T46B3A, it was the great ...

Commentary: 'I’m still a Republican because I want to make sure somebody in those circles still has a conscience.' ...

In the late 1990s I met Ralph Munro on official business at his office in Olympia, Washington. One day he invited me to join him and the then Consul General of Japan in Seattle on a ferry and then to ...

Sedna's grandmother, T046 or "Wake," was one of six whales captured and temporarily held by SeaWorld in Budd Inlet, according ...

An orca calf was spotted in the Puget Sound, and it has an interesting story: the calf is related to a killer whale that was ...

Why it matters: The calf's mother, 14-year-old Sedna, is the granddaughter of Wake, an orca that Munro was instrumental in getting released from captivity in the 1970s, according to the Pacific Whale ...

The orca calf’s great-grandmother was one of six whales captured and temporarily held by SeaWorld in Washington’s Puget Sound in March 1976.

Wake and the other orcas were released after Ralph Munro, assistant to then Washington governor Dan Evans, witnessed the captures while sailing with friends and was appalled, said association ...