ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – SeaWorld built its brand on a leaping and splashing killer whale named Shamu. She was part of its logo, gave her name to stadiums in the theme parks and was the inspiration for ...

Shamu shows will resume Saturday, three days after a six-ton bull orca dragged Dawn Brancheau underwater to her death at the end of a show in Orlando, SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment President Jim ...

Music up. A symphonic score fills the former Shamu Stadium at SeaWorld, the tempo building suspense as footage of an icy landscape in Antarctica moves across a 140-foot wide screen. “Get ready for a ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - An employee at SeaWorld Orlando has died after being attacked by a killer whale. Orange County Fire Rescue spokesman John Mulhall says paramedics were called Wednesday afternoon ...

SAN DIEGO – SeaWorld Entertainment Inc announced plans on Monday to phase out the signature "Shamu" killer whale show at its San Diego park next year, after long-running criticism of its treatment of ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (KABC) -- A local congressman is taking on SeaWorld, introducing a federal bill that would ban the captivity of killer whales and end the park's famed Shamu show nationwide.

When SeaWorld San Diego marked its half-century anniversary 10 years ago, it was enmeshed in a public relations quagmire following the release just a year earlier of “Blackfish,” the searing ...

Bowing to years of pressure from animal rights activists, U.S theme park operator SeaWorld said on Thursday it would stop breeding killer whales and that those currently at its parks would be the last ...

SAN ANTONIO -- There's been an addition to the SeaWorld San Antonio family. Park officials say an 18-year killer whale named Takara gave birth to an orca calf in Shamu Theater, the park's research and ...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Tilikum the orca has died after more than two decades at SeaWorld Orlando, where he gained notoriety for killing a trainer in 2010 and later was profiled in a documentary that helped ...