Catalina Island

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.

A new study showed a specific kind of seaweed could help significantly reduce methane gas emissions in California.

It was originally listed for $1 billion when it went on the market last summer. Now, there’s a drop in the asking price for an eye-popping piece of property called “The Mountain.”

U.S. Coast Guard crews, Orange County Sheriff’s deputies and lifeguards found a 20-year-old man who went missing Sunday after he was riding a Yamaha jet ski in the waters off of Long Beach, but the man was pronounced dead at the hospital a short time later, according to authorities.

A 64-year-old San Diego man on his way back sailing to Catalina Island capsized off the coast of Oceanside early Saturday morning and had to swim to shore.

A property touted as the finest undeveloped plot of land in all of Los Angeles is hitting the market with the most expensive listing in the history of the city: $1 billion.

Eye hundreds of artifacts from the Happiest Place on Earth. Plus: BOLD opens, Sparrow Mart opens, free croissant, “Wizard” on Catalina

A property touted as the finest undeveloped plot of land in all of Los Angeles is hitting the market with the most expensive listing in the history of the city: $1 billion.