Santa Barbara Channelkeeper’s biannual cleanup brings a team of volunteers to the largest of the Channel Islands to help ...

The swell was pushing in from one side then bouncing off the cliff walls and ricocheting back, making our kayak bounce around like we were in a washing machine. Our group of four kayaks was more than ...

Just an hour-long ferry ride from the coast of southern California is the only place in the world you can see what might also ...

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Before the Danish era there was no masonry structure on Santa Cruz, except for a few cisterns and foundations. The so-called Spanish Spy map of 1647, when the island was ...

CHANNEL ISLANDS, Calif. – A man was recovered from the seas off the shores of Santa Cruz Island Saturday after falling overboard without a lifejacket. According to the U.S. Coast Guard Channel Islands ...

On December 28, 1973, the Endangered Species Act became law - 50 years now of conservation and controversy. We're going to spend the first part of the program this morning marking the law's milestone.

On a predictably foggy morning in May, I boarded a ferry toward Santa Cruz Island, hoping for sun and eager to spend the day kayaking through sea caves. The sun didn’t show, but a calm, glassy ocean ...