The group is protesting the Catalina Island Conservancy’s plan to have all 2,000 mule deer on the island shot and killed. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) By Louis Sahagún Staff Writer ...

Tourists have been visiting regularly since chewing gum mogul William Wrigley Jr. bought the Santa Catalina Island Company, which developed the island, in 1919 with the intention of creating an ...

For more than 7,000 years, humans have been enjoying the cool breezes, clear blue water and great fishing of Santa Catalina Island, one of the eight rocky islands that wreath the coast of Southern ...

Santa Catalina Island, though just a roughly one hour boat ride from Long Beach, has always been somewhat of a mystery for me — despite my being a lifelong resident of the South Bay.

The hike to the highest point on the west end of Santa Catalina Island -- 1804-foot Silver Peak --introduces you to its wild windward side. Spectacular views are the norm most of the way.

FILE - A small plane lands on Catalina's Airport in the Sky as the U.S. Marines and Navy Seabees rebuild the mountaintop runway on storied Santa Catalina Island, Calif., Friday, Jan. 25, 2019.

Santa Catalina Island is one of the most remote pieces of Los Angeles County, part of a 20-million-year-old archipelago in the Pacific Ocean known as the Channel Islands.

Typically quiet Santa Catalina Island, off the coast of Los Angeles, erupted in tumult last fall over a bold proposal to kill all the deer on the island using sharpshooters in helicopters.

Santa Catalina Island, the native-land-turned-tourist-destination renowned for its scenic charm, is now a collection point of the largest accumulation of ocean plastic in the world. Located between ...

FILE - Catalina Island Conservancy Airport Manager Justin Bollum looks out of the airport tower as U.S. Marines and Navy Seabees rebuild the mountaintop runway on Santa Catalina Island, Calif ...