A search was called off overnight for a possible missing kayaker reported off Channel Islands Harbor in Oxnard Sunday. A suspicious kayak was reported near the breakwater just before 10 p.m., prompting the response from U.

Sea lions and other ocean mammals in Southern California are falling victim to a poisoning event that a local expert calls the worst in recent memory. It is stranding the mammals along the coast as warnings are issued to beachgoers of the threat posed by animals that are transformed by their illness.