Another dead whale was discovered in the waters of the San Francisco Bay, the fifth creature found in the area in less than a ...

The whales are now headed north. In just the last two weeks, three gray whales have died in San Francisco Bay, one of which ...

Still, an approaching trough will hit land by Friday with its destination in the Central Coast and along Santa Cruz County, ...

Get ready for rain this weekend! We're timing out a band of rain headed toward Southern California on Saturday.

A dead whale washed ashore Friday, April 11, near the Huntington Beach Pier. A team from the Pacific Marine Mammal Center ...

The Sausalito-based Marine Mammal Center is probing the death of a female gray whale that washed up on Black Sands Beach in the Marin Headlands.

Taken together, the deaths have raised the specter of past “unusual mortality events” that caused whales to die in higher-than-normal numbers.

"Gray whales from 2019 to 2023 went through an unusual mortality event, which is basically a mass die off of a species that's declared by NOAA," said Giancarlo Rulli with the Marine Mammal Center.

The decision to issue a red flag warning is made with the collaborative efforts of the Gray, Maine, office of the NWS and in-state agencies, including the New Hampshire Division of Forests and Lands.

That so-called "unusual mortality event" involved 690 gray whale strandings, including 347 in the United States, 316 in Mexico, and 27 in Canada, NOAA reported. A joint investigation with NOAA ...