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Investigators with an international environmental watchdog have recommended a probe into whether Canada is violating its own laws by not stopping toxic wastewater from being dumped into the ocean along its Pacific coast.

A Vancouver Island First Nation that has adopted a young killer whale as its newest family member says concern rises about its ordeal with each day that passes, but strong hope for a rescue remains.

Plans to save a killer whale calf stranded in a remote tidal lagoon off northern Vancouver Island for almost two weeks have been elevated to attempts to feed the young animal.

A rescue team working to coax a stranded killer whale calf from a lagoon off northern Vancouver Island is prepared to change tactics to save its life, including the possibility of lifting the orca out to the open ocean, says a Fisheries Department marine mammal co-ordinator.

A British Columbia marine research group says a female killer whale died on Saturday after being stranded in shallow water near the Village of Zeballos on the west side of Vancouver Island.

Five years ago today, the orca mother J35 — also known as Tahlequah — gave birth to a calf who died shortly thereafter. In response, Tahlequah proceeded to carry her daughter’s body across the Salish Sea for 17 days, a 1600 kilometre journey of mourning that went viral at the time.

An unlikely coalition of a theme park owner, an animal rights group and an NFL owner-philanthropist plan to return Lolita — who has lived in captivity at the Miami Seaquarium for more than 50 years — to her home waters in the Pacific Northwest.

A killer whale died unexpectedly at SeaWorld San Diego and the reason was not immediately known, the aquarium and theme park said on Friday, August 20, 2021.

Researchers are cautiously celebrating the birth of a new addition to the endangered southern resident killer whale population.

Two northern resident killer whale families brought along a baby as they returned for the first time in 20 years to their traditional winter foraging grounds in British Columbia waters. 

A rare white killer whale has been spotted off the coast of British Columbia.

The Vancouver Aquarium is suing the city and park board over the 2017 cetacean ban for breach of contract and claiming it lost millions of dollars in revenue.

An American whale research organization says an ailing killer whale has been found alive just hours after it was announced the young orca had been separated from her family pod.

Scientists who are trying to treat an ailing killer whale in the Pacific Ocean off Washington state are looking at injecting the animal with a second dose of antibiotics and another drug.

An endangered orca's "tour of grief" is over after she spent nearly three weeks towing her dead calf around the Pacific Ocean, researchers said on Sunday, August 12, 2018.