Camano Island

Officials are responding to a dead gray whale found beached on the west side of Camano Island. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration Fisheries West Coast Region posted about the massive stranded mammal, saying a necropsy would be performed.

Reporter Bellamy Pailthorp on why this was a favorite story of 2021: I did this story in my efforts to learn more about the region’s gray whales as we…