President Donald Trump has put up some interesting individuals for his cabinet picks. As expected, the Senate is mostly split ...

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That same orca mom, dubbed J35 by scientists and Tahlequah by the Whale Museum in ... J35’s apparent 1,000-mile funeral procession of sorts in 2018 became known as a “tour of grief,” though ...

Betty Jean (Nickels) Epperley passed away unexpectedly on Friday, December 27, 2024, at Tahlequah, Oklahoma, at the age of 92 years. Betty was born on September 12, 1932, to Oscar Nickels and Cora ...

Lyla Janice Naysmith, 99, of Laddonia, Mo., died Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, at Kings Daughters Home in Mexico. Janice, as she was ...

This week, mother orca Tahlequah may have surpassed her 2018 tour of grief, during which she carried her dead calf for 17 days and more than 1,000 miles. Tahlequah was last seen still carrying her ...

In a day of sadness and surprise, researchers on Puget Sound on Tuesday found J61, the new calf born to mother orca Tahlequah, had not survived — and that a new calf also had been born to J pod.

Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, Jim and Birte ...

Tahlequah has been grieving the loss of her baby. In a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions, an orca who made headlines in 2018 after it carried her dead calf for more than two weeks, has once ...

The killer whale, named Tahlequah or J35 to researchers, was spotted swimming with a new calf in the Puget Sound waterway off Washington State on Friday, scientists have said. In a Facebook post ...

Scientists believe Tahlequah is expressing grief by continuing to push the calf's body, a behavior that expends valuable energy. While other orcas have been observed carrying their dead ...