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People watch as a helicopter carries an abandoned ship from Squaxin Island to shore on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

Flying boats make for a rare sight as Washington clears an island of derelict vessels by helicopter

The Washington Department of Natural Resources has been using one of its firefighting helicopters to haul abandoned boats off an uninhabited island in the southernmost reaches of Puget Sound this week.

Daniel McRae unloads a bag of harvested geoduck clams from his brother, Derrick McRae, on their boat near Illahee State Park in Bremerton, Wash., on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

How a Chinese delicacy got caught in the crossfire of Trump’s trade war

A strike sign is waved on the union machinist picket line near Boeing's factory in Everett, Washington, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Valdes)

A strike by Boeing factory workers shows no signs of ending after its first week

Construction vehicles are parked outside of the Station U & O building on Tuesday, June 11, 2024, in Washington. The apartment building was built using investments from Amazon's Housing Equity Fund. The company said Tuesday its adding $1.4 billion to the fund in order to help preserve or construct more affordable housing units in three regions. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Amazon adds $1.4 billion to affordable housing fund for regions where it has corporate offices

FILE- Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz speaks at a press conference on Friday, Sept. 4, 2020 at Naches High School in Naches, Wash. Franz launched a campaign for governor on Wednesday, May 10, 2023. (Evan Abell/Yakima Herald-Republic via AP, File)

Washington Public Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz announces run for governor

Flying boats make for a rare sight as Washington clears an island of derelict vessels by helicopter

More than a dozen abandoned boats were airlifted by a helicopter off an uninhabited island in Washington state’s Puget Sound for an operation funded by a federal grant.

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To keep whales safe, Coast Guard launches ship alert system in Seattle

Relocating orca brings challenges, joy for advocates

The Space Needle, Seattle’s iconic landmark, welcomes the World Cup with the FIFA flag at the top

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Murphy scores 18 off the bench, Seattle U takes down Puget Sound 97-43

Washington Public Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz drops out of governor’s race to run for Congress

The entrance to Miami Seaquarium is seen, Thursday, March 30, 2023, in Miami. An unlikely coalition of a theme park owner, animal rights group and NFL owner-philanthropist announced Thursday that a plan is in place to return Lolita, an orca that has lived at the Miami Seaquarium for more than 50 years, to her home waters in the Pacific Northwest. (Alie Skowronski/Miami Herald via AP)

52 years after capture, orca Lolita may return to Pacific

The final Boeing 747 sits on the tarmac outside of the factory at a ceremony for delivery, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, in Everett, Wash. Since it debuted in 1969, the 747 has served as a cargo plane, a commercial aircraft capable of carrying nearly 500 passengers, and the Air Force One presidential aircraft. (AP Photo/John Froschauer)

Boeing bids farewell to an icon, delivers last 747 jumbo jet

1 killed by falling tree, 20K lose power in Wash. high winds

2 hurt when small plane hits storage facility in Kent

FILE - In this photo provided by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, a crane and boats are anchored next to a collapsed "net pen" used by Cooke Aquaculture Pacific to farm Atlantic Salmon near Cypress Island in Washington state on Aug. 28, 2017. Washington has banned net-pen fish-farming in state waters, citing danger to struggling native salmon. Public Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz issued an executive order Friday banning such aquaculture. (David Bergvall/Washington State Department of Natural Resources via AP, File)

Washington bans fish-farming net pens, citing salmon threat

Washington won’t renew leases for Puget Sound fish farms

Lloyd’s 21 lead Seattle over Puget Sound 106-55

FAA mandates seaplane inspections after Puget Sound crash

Democrat Paddy McGuire, incumbent Mason County auditor, center, talks with voters during before a "candidate speed-dating" style forum, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022, in Shelton, Wash. (AP Photo/John Froschauer)

Conspiracy pushers target races for local election posts

Wildfire smoke again pollutes Pacific Northwest air

Big ships in North Puget Sound asked to slow down for orcas

Smoky air again affecting PNW amid fires, red flag warnings

FILE - A U.S. Coast Guard boat and Kitsap, Wash., County Sheriff's Office boat search the area near Freeland, Wash., on Whidbey Island north of Seattle, Monday, Sept. 5, 2022, where a chartered floatplane crashed the day before, killing 10 people. The Federal Aviation Administration has issued an emergency airworthiness directive about a part of the tail of DHC-3 Otters, the type of seaplane that crashed. (AP Photo/Stephen Brashear, File)

FAA issues warning about type of seaplane that crashed

Remains of 7 Puget Sound floatplane crash victims identified

FILE - A U.S. Coast Guard boat and Kitsap, Wash., County Sheriff boat search the area, Monday, Sept. 5, 2022, near Freeland, Wash., on Whidbey Island north of Seattle where a chartered floatplane crashed the day before, killing 10 people. Crews later this month will begin trying to recover the wreckage. rews later this month will begin trying to recover the wreckage of a seaplane that crashed in Puget Sound off Whidbey Island in Washington state. The National Transportation Board said Friday, Sept. 16, 2022 it will work with the Navy to collect the wreckage of the DHC-3 Turbine Otter. (AP Photo/Stephen Brashear, File)

5 more bodies recovered from Puget Sound floatplane crash

FILE - A U.S. Coast Guard boat and Kitsap, Wash., County Sheriff boat search the area, Sept. 5, 2022, near Freeland, Wash., on Whidbey Island north of Seattle where a floatplane crashed the day before, killing 10 people. The bodies of some of the victims and most of a floatplane have been recovered. Island County Emergency Management confirmed Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, that multiple bodies were recovered, (AP Photo/Stephen Brashear, File)

Bodies and floatplane parts recovered from Puget Sound

Floatplane wreckage recovery in Puget Sound begins

Cars cruise over the 1st Ave. bridge in front of a backdrop of a hazy Seattle skyline, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Smoke is making the air quality in downtown and North Seattle unhealthy for everyone, according to the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency. (Ellen M. Banner/The Seattle Times via AP)

Wildfire smoke reaches unhealthy levels in Seattle

FILE - A U.S. Coast Guard boat and Kitsap, Wash., County Sheriff boat search the area, Monday, Sept. 5, 2022, near Freeland, Wash., on Whidbey Island north of Seattle where a chartered floatplane crashed the day before, killing 10 people. Crews later this month will begin trying to recover the wreckage. rews later this month will begin trying to recover the wreckage of a seaplane that crashed in Puget Sound off Whidbey Island in Washington state. The National Transportation Board said Friday, Sept. 16, 2022 it will work with the Navy to collect the wreckage of the DHC-3 Turbine Otter. (AP Photo/Stephen Brashear, File)

Navy, NTSB to begin efforts to recover crashed seaplane

Tribe, county, reach $5M settlement deal over sewage spills

Wreckage from float plane crash in Puget Sound located

Wreckage of deadly floatplane crash may have been found

Body recovered after float plane crash identified

A U.S. Coast Guard boat and Kitsap, Wash., County Sherrif boat search the area, Monday, Sept. 5, 2022, near Freeland, Wash., on Whidbey Island north of Seattle where a chartered floatplane crashed the day before. The plane was carrying 10 people and was en route from Friday Harbor, Wash., to Renton, Wash. (AP Photo/Stephen Brashear)

Victims of floatplane crash included activist, winemaker

A U.S. Coast Guard vessel searches the area, Monday, Sept. 5, 2022, near Freeland, Wash., on Whidbey Island north of Seattle where a chartered floatplane crashed the day before. The plane was en route from Friday Harbor, Wash., to Renton, Wash. (AP Photo/Stephen Brashear)

Coast Guard ends search for 9 missing in floatplane crash

A Coast Guard helicopter searches the area where a floatplane crashed near Whidbey Island, Wash., Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022. (Courtney Riffkin/The Seattle Times via AP)

1 dead, 9 missing after floatplane crashes in Puget Sound

FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2014, file photo, endangered orcas swim in Puget Sound and in view of the Olympic Mountains just west of Seattle, as seen from a federal research vessel that has been tracking the whales. A federal court ruling this week has thrown into doubt the future of a valuable commercial king salmon fishery in Southeast Alaska, after a conservation group challenged the government's approval of the harvest as a threat to protected fish and the endangered killer whales that eat them. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Ruling clouds future of southeast Alaska king salmon fishery

Report: Quake-triggered tsunami would hit Seattle in minutes

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