SANTA CRUZ — Santa Cruz County planning officials gave the go-ahead for the installation of a female surfer statue on East Cliff Drive during a heated public hearing Friday that brought out numerous ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sea otter feeds close to a surfer at Steamer Lane along the Santa Cruz coastline in July 2023. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles ...

SANTA CRUZ — Santa Cruz had two big-wave surfers win titles at the 25th annual Big Wave Challenge Awards celebration at Lido Theater in Newport Beach on Saturday. Alessandro “Alo” Slebir was named the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KRON) — One of the largest swells of the winter generated huge waves last weekend. Surfers at Steamer Lane in ...

Santa Cruz surf breaks are free to enjoy but worth millions. That’s one of the key findings in the first report to put a dollar value on this world-renowned surf playground. The report identified ...

Five years ago, Patricio Guerrero was surfing the rolling waves of Santa Cruz when the leash on his board broke, sending it flying into a nearby cave and shattering its nose. As Guerrero worked on ...

The swell two days before Christmas that gave Santa Cruz surfer Alo Slebir the ride of his life on a towering wave at Mavericks off the coast of Half Moon Bay was officially the biggest wave ridden ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for two missing surfers near the Santa Cruz Lighthouse. The Coast Guard received a report from bystanders of two surfers in the water yelling ...

It's been two years since a Santa Cruz sea otter, known as 841, garnered international attention and celebrity by attacking surfers and their surfboards as the human wave-riders alley-ooped over the ...