A federal judge in San Diego sentenced Jinchao Wei, 25, to 200 months after he was convicted in August of six crimes, ...

The U.S. government has filed for court warrants to seize dozens more tankers linked to the Venezuelan oil trade, four ...

The young whale, dubbed "Oil Change," was seen repeatedly off Cape Cod, and would entertain whale watchers with breaches and ...

This is Cheynes IV, a historic whalechasing ship now resting on land in Albany, Western Australia. Once active in the ocean, ...

A dead 2-year-old humpback whale washed ashore in Bethany Beach, Delaware, on Thursday. So what happens to the massive ...

Learn about the different ideas that came together in Massachusetts to make the right whale the "right" whale to represent ...

A former U.S. Navy sailor has been sentenced to over 16 years in federal prison for selling secret military information on ...

Quick Take Connecticut chose the sperm whale in 1975 to honor its pivotal 19th-century whaling industry and maritime heritage ...

LLM contributor Ina Yulo Stuve chats to restaurateur Svennik Foss-Pettersson of Restaurant Victor, a modern Nordic restaurant ...

An East Carolina University professor has authored a new book that traces the rise of American whaling in the Pacific Ocean.

Famed archaeologist Robert Grenier, who led the discovery of the 16th-century Basque whaling ship the San Juan in Labrador, ...