EASTSOUND, Wash. — Getting away from it all doesn't have to mean hours of travel. A 40-minute flight from Seattle's Boeing Field aboard Kenmore Air Express delivers visitors to the San Juan Islands, ...

With breaches and tail slapping, a pod of orcas put on a show near Seattle on Friday. The close encounter attracted dozens of people to the shore of the West Seattle neighborhood. Whale watchers ...

ORCAS ISLAND, Wash. — Tens of thousands of people in western Washington and southwestern British Columbia felt a magnitude 4.5 earthquake on Monday that struck near the southeast side of Orcas Island.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.5 struck Orcas Island early Monday morning. The quake, which had a depth of about 10 miles, occurred at 5:02 a.m., according to the U.S. Geological ...