Five people are dead after a small plane crashed on Catalina Island off Southern California, sheriff's department says. The twin-engine Beechcraft 95 crashed shortly after 8 p.m. Tuesday ...

Still, the island boasts some good scuba diving — especially off its southern tip of La Restinga. You can stay overnight on El Hierro, but there are only a few small hotels to choose from.

TORRANCE, Calif.— Following the recent discovery that up to 500,000 barrels of the banned pesticide DDT were dumped into the Pacific Ocean off Southern California, the Center for Biological Diversity ...