After a pilot departing Airport in the Sky nearly hit a drone, the Conservancy is putting new restrictions in place across its lands.
A near collision between a small plane and a...
The NAC Avalon Ocean Club recently held tryouts for the upcoming fall program. The club focuses on water safety, while teaching open-water swimming and other ocean skills that build the participants’...
By Bud Hohl and J. Paul DeMyer
The unique sport of outrigger canoe paddling has evolved from a long line of Oceanic voyagers, to what is today becoming a very fast-growing aquatic...
After more than five decades of serving the residents, businesses, and visitors of Avalon, we are deeply saddened to announce that our taxi service will cease operations effective October 19, 2026.
For...
Breaking news: Southern California Edison officials have decided against shipping water from the Million Gallon Tank in Two Harbors to the Wrigley Reservoir that...
News organizations are reporting that a former civlian Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department employee has settled a lawsuit that alleged his former employers punished him...
The Avalon City Council voted unanimously to formally recite the facts of the June 2026 election.
Departing Councilmember Mary Schickling, who did not run for...
Dana Canby graduated from Avalon School in 2002
For the Islander
Cmdr. Alfonza White was relieved by Cmdr. Dana Canby as commanding officer of the Freedom-variant...
Carl Johnson
Background: Occupation: Businessman/Entrepreneur. Blessed to be the fourth generation to call Avalon home and an Avalon High School graduate, I admire what the...
Local merchants: sit up and pay attention
Over the last two or three decades, a once-in-a-hundred years economic shift has been taking place. It’s called...
Approximately 350 of Charlie Canby’s friends and family gathered at the Catalina Boat Yard recently, to celebrate his life. Pastor Enrique provided a eulogy...