A survey crew that has spent the past five years tracking whale locations just had their first orca sighting -- off the coast ...

Baby orca J62 is a female ... residents are the most urban of the orcas and are plagued by at least three threats: lack of food, noisy waters that make it harder for them to hunt and contaminants ...

The federal government is refusing to issue an emergency order protecting southern resident killer whales from "imminent threats" to their survival.