Catalina Island

The Institute of Wildlife Studies shared video of the hard-to-spot nest, which is located “in the bottom of a canyon.”

A Catalina Island mother was arrested on suspicion of child abuse of her 2-year-old child after Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva says the girl was severely abused, and discovered with rope marks.

An endemic and elusive Catalina Island shrew was spotted by wildlife conservationists for the first time in more than 15 years, it was announced Wednesday.

A whale watching crew in Southern California has discovered a humpback whale with a disfigured tail had traveled from Russia, an unheard-of journey in the whale world. The Orange County Register reported Tuesday that the whale watchers spotted the animal earlier this month off Catalina and sought photos to help tell its story and maybe reveal how its tail was...

A whale watching crew in Southern California has discovered a humpback whale with a disfigured tail had traveled more than 3,000 miles from Russia, an unheard-of journey in the whale world.
Credit: Mark Girardeau and Newport Coastal Adventure

Catalina Island Company is offering the “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to a few adventurous, Avalon-loving overnighters.

Join a virtual fundraiser and lend your support to the esteemed Avalon-based institution.

The “larger-than-life projection series” is playing nightly through Sept. 27.

When the gates to California’s “island of romance” were all but locked to lovers and pretty much everybody else last month it may have saved the 4,000 residents from a coronavirus outbreak but it destroyed an economy based almost solely on tourism. The stay-at home order instituted across California isolated tiny Santa Catalina Island from the virus that was spreading…

The “importance of human connections” is the focus of the fresh offering from the Catalina Island Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Bureau.

Join the Avalon Harbor Underwater Cleanup and swim in an area that’s closed to divers, save one day a year.

Snag a boat-hotel combo package, and enjoy your Avalon adventure, through March 2020.

One of California’s balloon-drop-iest bashes will welcome the new decade inside the Casino Ballroom.

A gingerbread ode to Catalina Island’s former St. Catherine hotel is on display.

Check in on Catalina Island off the coast of Southern California with our live camera.

Two San Diego men are thanking their lucky kayaks for taking the brunt of a great white shark bite near Catalina Island over the weekend.

Six swimmers will attempt to break a relay record while raising money for charity when they swim the daunting Catalina Channel.

Zooey Deschanel and Jacob Pechenik have called it quits. The “New Girl” alum and her film producer beau have split after four years of marriage.

Rescue crews searching Catalina Island for a missing helicopter found a crash site on the west end of the island Tuesday and confirmed that one person, presumed to be aircraft’s pilot, had died.