Santa 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…

Authorities have found 1,300 pounds of plastic-wrapped marijuana floating in the ocean near Santa Catalina Island off the Southern California coast.

A couple vacationing at Santa Catalina Island had quite the adventure. Their time for relaxation and fun turned into a recovery mission — for a wedding ring lost at sea. The ring was found with the help of a sibling, metal detectorist, and business owner.

U.S. Marines and Navy Seabees are rebuilding the mountaintop runway on storied Santa Catalina Island, a tourist destination off the Southern California coast.

Police Thursday released images of a Ford Mustang whose hit-and-run driver was believed to have been street racing a car that was involved in a collision in South Los Angeles that left two 9-year-old girls critically injured.

Street racing caused a crash that almost split a car in two. Two 9-year-old girls are fighting for their lives after the crash and the search is on for the driver.

A retired Orange County Superior Court judge was admonished Friday by a state watchdog organization for making “inappropriate” comments during a restraining order hearing.

Production is underway on a feature-length documentary about Natalie Wood, which will explore the late actress’ life and career through the perspective of her daughter and other family members, friends and co-stars, HBO announced Friday.

U.S. Marines will invade Santa Catalina Island off Southern California to rebuild its airport’s aging main runway as a training exercise.

A sewage spill around Avalon on Santa Catalina Island off Southern California closed restaurants and beaches Friday, leaving tourists and business owners “paralyzed” by the problem.

One woman was planning a Catalina Island trip for months but now the water is shut off, meaning no toilets and no open restaurants, after a sewer line break. Vikki Vargas reports from Dana Point, where the Catalina Express has been coming and going, for the NBC4 News at 6 Friday, June 1, 2018.

A magnitude-5.3 earthquake off the coast Thursday rattled a widespread part of Southern California. One of the strongest earthquake to shake Southern California in the last four years caused shaking Thursday across a widespread part of the region.

A camera on Santa Cruz Island caught the startled reaction of an eagle and three chicks Thursday when a magnitude-5.3 earthquake rattled Southern California.

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department detectives said Monday that they have received little new information since witnesses were interviewed in the 1981 death of Natalie Wood and want to see whether someone out there might have more information about how the actress died.

It’s almost November, but the Southland received a thorough baking Monday as a heat wave sent temperatures soaring to record levels and put fire crews on high alert thanks to elevated wildfire conditions.

Red flag warnings denoting a high risk of wildfires will be in force Friday along two Southern California mountain ranges, two forests and the Santa Clarita Valley because of above-normal heat, low humidity and strong winds.

Rare July thunderstorms and a few light showers popped up Monday morning to start off another day of hot, humid weather in Southern California.

Earthquake researchers will drop seismometers along a 90-mile stretch of ocean floor this month to get a better idea of the potential hazards of off-shore fault systems. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography will place the seismometers along the northern section of a fault called the San Diego Trough.