A roundup of news briefs and calendar items from around coastal Orange County, this week from the cities of Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach and Irvine ... of a 3-year-old whale and suspect it ...

The rare orca pod has only been documented seven times since 1993. The two females and three kids were seen about 2.5 miles from Newport Beach last week.

Two North Atlantic right whales were spotted off the Gulf Coast of Alabama recently in a rare encounter less than a mile away ...

The 39-foot gray whale carcass was discovered floating off Marina del Rey on Saturday with most of its head missing.

Wildlife officials have launched an investigation after a dead gray whale washed ashore on Dockweiler State Beach on Sunday.

A collision with an ocean vessel may have been what killed a humpback whale that washed ashore in Huntington Beach last week, according to officials with the Pacific Marine Mammal Center.

Wildlife officials have launched an investigation after a dead gray whale washed ashore on Dockweiler State Beach on Sunday. According to John Warner, CEO of the Marine Mammal Care Center ...

Spotting orcas off the coast is always a treat  – but an “extremely rare” sighting Thursday, Jan. 30, has experts even more ecstatic. A pod that has never been documented off Orange County’s coast was ...

Early Sunday a gray whale that was killed by orcas off Los Angeles County washed ashore on Dockweiler State Beach. It was not ...

A sperm whale washed ashore on Cuttyhunk Island off Cape Cod Sunday, the International Fund for Animal Welfare said in a statement. The most recent whale discovery is part of a series of whale ...

Rescuers have freed a humpback whale that was caught up in a rope at a fish farm off the Isle of Skye. The mammal was spotted by a member of the public being in difficulty at the Invertote salmon ...