The sleepy town of Florence, Oregon, became the setting for one of the most bizarre news stories in American history. An ...

Outdoor columnist Ben Smith looks back the 1970 exploding whale story from Oregon. He says it makes him wonder how ...

Swaths of the whales’ migratory path remain perilously unprotected from vessel strikes, a leading cause of death ...

All large whale species – Blue, Fin, Sei, Sperm, humpback and North Atlantic right whales – frequent New York waters.