The Boothbay Harbor town pier will get several upgrades this year. Selectmen approved a $102,499.71 bid from Carousel Marina ...

Twice each year, some 20,000 gray whales pass along the California coast as they swim south to breeding lagoons on the west coast of Baja California during winter months, then back to their summer ...

Coon, who also is one of the family owners of the seven-boat Trilogy fleet, said the whales are an essential annual boost to ...

Want to spot nature’s largest animal in the wild? Late December is a great time to make it happen — and the weather might even play ball this year. Upward of 14,000 gray whales are expected to swim ...

Coon, who also is one of the family owners of the seven-boat Trilogy fleet, said the whales are an essential annual boost to ...

Courtesy of Stefanie Knowlton / Oregon State Parks If you want to see a whale off the coast of Oregon, this weekend is a good time to do it. Whale Watch Week this year runs Dec. 27 through Dec. 31.

DEPOE BAY, Ore. — Winter days with clear skies at the Oregon coast can be hard to find. At Rocky Creek State Park, the sweeping ocean views are already reason enough to pull over. But this time of ...

Well, this is a grim way to celebrate Whale Watch Week. For several days, a grisly scene has been playing out on the central Oregon coast: A piece of a dead whale (part of its head, to be specific) ...

NEWBURYPORT — Folks attending the next Custom House Maritime Museum First Friday 2026 lecture are bound to have a whale of a time as Newburyport Whale Watch marine naturalist Kristin Daley is the ...

"Monterey Bay is in my rearview mirror as I drive inland through toiled farm fields to Pacheco Pass. It is early morning in Steinbeck Country." ...