Oil Platform Gilda loomed prominently on my immediate northeastern horizon. Standing tall, it was the last platform I paddled ...

California's largest island feels worlds away from the mainland, with unique wildlife, sea caves, turquoise waters, and ...

Whitley, Jasmine, and Ashleigh Williams all graduated from Cal State University Channel Islands on Saturday, May 23. Now, ...

More than a week after a series of large wildfires broke out across Southern California and burned nearly 23,000 acres of ...

Identical triplets graduated together. Whitley, Jasmine, and Ashleigh Williams graduated from Cal State University Channel ...

National Park Service officials say that the blaze is a "full-suppression human-caused wildfire," which has burned more than ...

Several fires have sparked amid warm weather and Santa Ana wind conditions. One in Simi Valley has led to multiple ...

Wildfires are much rarer on the Channel Islands than on the mainland nearby. But human visitation and impacts have increased ...

A massive wildfire raging across California’s remote Santa Rosa Island is threatening some of the rarest plant species on ...

Santa Rosa Island’s grove of rare Torrey pines appears to have been mostly spared from the massive wildfire tearing through ...

The island is home to the Torrey pine, 'the rarest native pine the United States,' according to the National Park Service.