This year’s Treaty Day Film Festival offers the first local chance to see “Resident Orca,” the documentary that follows the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The killer whale Tokitae, also known as Lolita, may finally be released after more than 50 years in captivity in the world's smallest orca enclosure. Billionaire ...

Other whale news: Family of orca Tokitae revisits site of her capture more than 50 years later According to the Orca Conservancy, J61 is Tahlequah’s third viable calf. Her two previous offspring ...

Five decades ago, a 4-year-old orca was captured in Penn Cove and sold to the Miami Seaquarium, where she received the name “Lolita.” She performed about twice daily until 2022, then remained at the ...