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A 75-foot diving boat called the Conception caught fire off the coast of Ventura County early Monday with 39 people aboard. Five crew members managed to escape the ship, which was largely destroyed.

Bodies are brought ashore at the Santa Barbara Harbor on Monday after the commercial dive boat Conception caught fire and sank near Santa Cruz Island. Twenty bodies have been recovered, but 14 people ...

The election period in Conception Bay East-Bell Island has officially begun, with a byelection set to be held on Jan. 29. The province's chief electoral officer issued the writ Saturday, signalling ...

Around 3:30 a.m. on Labor Day, the U.S. Coast Guard responded to a mayday call from the dive boat Conception off Santa Cruz Island in Southern California. They found the vessel completely ablaze. The ...

LITTLE San Salvador lies right in between Orange Creek, North Cat Island, and Bannerman Town on the southern tip of Eleuthera. It was just a reef-surrounded islet in the middle of a shipping channel ...

So the team went searching for more boas, finding four more snakes before settling down to sleep on the beach at Conception Island. But it turns out the boas weren't ready to call it a night. (See ...

One week ago, I was writing about a C-130 airplane that crash-landed at the Santa Barbara Airport and erupted in flames. Remarkably, all seven people aboard escaped unscathed. It was a simpler time, ...