The controversial deer removal program involving contracted sharpshooters will continue for the next several years, the city said.

Deer hunters checked more than 230,000 deer during the season that ended Feb. 1. See the changes proposed for next season.

Los Angeles County’s Counsel urged the Catalina Island Conservancy to alter its mule deer eradication plan, describing current plans to shoot them as “unnecessarily violent” and a “disregard for ...