The island is the southernmost of California's Channel Islands, but unlike it's well-known neighbor — Santa Catalina Island, about 24 miles away — San Clemente is not accessible by the public.

There is something special is happening at the Navy's island just 79 miles off the shore of San Diego.

SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND — The unique wildlife of San Clemente Island has survived the appetites and hooves of feral livestock, bombardments by Navy vessels and wave after wave of amphibious assault ...

San Clemente Island paintbrush, lotus, larkspur and bush-mallow plants, San Clemente Bell’s sparrow no longer require Endangered Species Act protection.

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — Sailors on San Clemente Island, home to a Navy air field and the service’s only ship-to-shore live firing range, are fending off a booming mouse population that has found ...

A small carving resembling a canoe found in June at one of San Clemente Island’s more than 4,000 archaeological sites helps shed rare light on the island’s original human inhabitants – those ...

San Clemente Island – 55 miles west of Orange County – is often shrouded in marine layer and haze. Sometimes its silhouette – like Catalina Island’s, 20 miles to the north &… ...

SAN CLEMENTE ISLANDSAN CLEMENTE ISLAND — The “mayor” of San Clemente Island runs this remote Navy outpost from a peeling 1930s building. Cmdr. Walt Glenn’s quarters are equally rough, with ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed today to remove Endangered Species Act protection from the San Clemente Island Bell's sparrow and four plant species, all found only on ...

San Clemente Island is pointing at Todos Santos Island off Ensenada, some 112 miles away. Anywhere along that line or parallel to it by twenty-five miles might hold a school of yellowfin or ...

CORONADO — A rodent infestation at naval facilities on San Clemente Island was more widespread than previously reported and, at its peak, an official on the island threatened to close a key ...

SAN DIEGO (CBSLA) – An amphibious assault vehicle which sank last week during a training accident off the coast of San Clemente Island was located in an underwater search Monday. The remains of ...