Santa Catalina Island

The Boy Scout bitten on the hand by a shark while in a canoe with his dad is expected to be fine, but the encounter caused a stir for those on Santa Catalina Island. John Cádiz Klemack reports for NBC4 on June 30, 2021.

Waters off Southern California’s Santa Catalina Island were closed Wednesday after a kayaker reported an encounter with a shark.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Monday that toxic chemical DDT waste barrels that were dumped near Santa Catalina Island decades ago are impacting marine life and could be a public health hazard.

Off the coast of Catalina and 3,000 feet deep into the Pacific Ocean, scientists have now mapped the sea floor and made some very worrisome discoveries. John Cádiz Klemack reports for NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on April 25, 2021.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.