Category: Currents

allard ducklings will have an easier time getting to dry land around Victoria Harbour this spring. The Greater Victoria Harbour Authority has installed six sloped duckling ramps at four marinas. A ramp at the...

King County authorities are investigating a collision late Saturday between a powerboat and sailboat in Quartermaster Harbor off Vashon Island that left one person dead and four others injured. Authorities said the powerboat with...

eanne Hyde is almost always listening to what whales have to say. Hyde works at The Whale Museum in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island. She documents all she can about what goes on...

new surveillance plane is set to help monitor fisheries and catch illegal activity in the waters off Vancouver Island. Contracted by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), the aircraft will be based out of Campbell...

icknamed “Lucky,” and officially labeled L124, an Orca calf first spotted in January continues to live in Puget Sound. The calf was the first known to be born in the area of the sound...

arm waters and infectious disease have been determined as the causes of a die-off of sunflower starfish along the Pacific coast, says a recently released study. Sunflower sea stars are among the largest starfish...

he City of Vancouver is extending its free mobile sewage pump-out service for boaters in False Creek. Council voted on Feb. 13 to allocate $75,000 for the program this year. Utilizing a pump-out boat,...

here is a killer or killers on the loose, shooting sea lions dead, assassination-style. So far, 18 carcasses have been found washed up on the shores of Puget Sound. Source: Sea lions have enemies....

his mother orca, known as J-35, has been balancing the body of its dead calf on its nose for seven days as of Monday. The calf died shortly after it was born on Tuesday off the...

his story of a crazed seal has been all over the news here in the Broughton Archipelago. We are somewhat late in posting it because we haven’t had cell or WiFi for some time,...