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Canada vs USA in Pacific Rim Rugby Championship series game

VIC98052901 - 29 MAY 1998 - VICTORIA, B.C. CANADA: Talzo Uchimura of Japan sprints to an eigth place finish in the World Cup Track Cycling finals of the men's 1.0 km Time Trials at Victoria's Juan de Fuca Velodrome, May 28th. hr/cs/H. Ruckemann UPI

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Canada intercepts shipload of migrants

VICTORIA, British Columbia, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- Canadian officials say they are investigating a suspected case of people smuggling off the west coast of Vancouver Island.

Coast Guard seizes 60,000 ecstasy tablets

PORT ANGELES, Wash., Aug. 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Coast Guard found a duffel bag containing more than 60,000 ecstasy tablets during an arrest on Washington's Neah Bay, police say.

NOAA to open marine ops center in Ore.

NEWPORT, Ore., Aug. 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it plans to open a marine operations center in Newport, Ore., moving four vessels from Seattle.

No jury for whaling trial

TACOMA, Wash., May 16 (UPI) -- A tribal judge with the Makah Nation in Washington state had to give up prosecuting five men for illegally killing a gray whale because he could not get a jury.

Native whalers plead guilty in Tacoma

TACOMA, Wash., March 28 (UPI) -- Three Native American whalers pleaded guilty in Tacoma, Wash., federal court Friday to charges of unlawfully harpooning a gray whale.

Cascadia forearc earthquakes studied

CORVALLIS, Ore., Jan. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. geologists have reported evidence of probable low-angle thrust earthquakes on the Juan de Fuca-North America plate boundary.

Chief: Whale killing damages Makah case

PORT ANGELES, Wash., Sept. 10 (UPI) -- The illegal killing of a whale off the coast of Washington state has damaged the Makah's case to resume legal whaling, the tribe's chairman said.

Whale killed in rogue tribal hunt

SEATTLE, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- Five members of the Makah Nation tribe were taken into custody after allegedly killing a California gray whale off the coast of Washington.

Pacific Northwest tectonic plates move

CORVALLIS, Ore., April 12 (UPI) -- Oregon State University scientists say the three major tectonic plates off the Pacific Northwest coast are undergoing a gradual shift.

Japanese shipwreck adds to quake evidence

SEATTLE, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- A Japanese shipwreck in 1700 may finally establish a great earthquake tore the sea floor off the coast of Washington the same year.

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