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BREMERTON — The Puget Sound Naval Shipyard is too busy maintaining the active Navy fleet to scrap the former Enterprise aircraft carrier, Navy officials announced Friday. Instead, the "Big E," the Navy's first nuclear-powered flattop, will head for a private scrapyard somewhere in the American South for disposal, under plans outlined in a draft environmental impact statement. Josh Farley, Kitsap Sun Fri, August 19, 2022 at 6:23 PM BREMERTON — The Puget Sound Naval Shipyard is too busy maintaining the active Navy fleet to scrap the former Enterprise aircraft carrier, Navy officials announced Friday. Instead, the "Big E," the Navy's...

"...The next minute, Luna was sucked into a tube containing a propeller powered by a 1,700-horsepower engine. It chopped the whale into bits."

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Killer whales in the Pacific Northwest's Puget Sound should be protected as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act, government scientists said on Thursday. "Our recovery efforts are already under way for these killer whales," Bob Lohn, head of the National Marine Fisheries Service's northwest regional office, said in a statement. The orcas, a pod of 84 that spends several months of the year in the frigid waters of Washington state's Puget Sound, are currently protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Designating the pod as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act will extend...

Free Republic's own Libertina, chair of the Puget Sound Chapter, called a chapter picnic on Saturday, September 20th, in beautiful Sunnyside Park in Steilacoom, WA, right on Puget Sound. The location she chose was beautiful and spectacular...

Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 12:00 a.m. Pacific FBI defends interviews to gather intelligence By David Postman Seattle Times chief political reporter Charles Mandigo E-mail this article Print this article Search web archive OLYMPIA — The FBI says its interviews of Iraqi exiles and immigrants in the United States is part of an intelligence-gathering effort to bolster the search for weapons in Iraq and to gather evidence that could be used in war-crime trials. Sensitive to concerns from the Iraqi community, though, the Seattle FBI office said it is trying to make the interviews more cooperative and less threatening after...