With rugged beauty and consistent waves, Santa Cruz is a surfer’s paradise. Here’s where and when to get your board in the ocean, and how to respect the marine wildlife.

A portion of a pier in northern California's Santa Cruz collapsed into the Pacific Ocean on Monday, sending three city workers into the sea after high surf slammed the coast. The Wharf ...

Huntington Beach, known as “Surf City USA,” will not host surfing or beach volleyball in the LA 2028 Olympics. The decision, ...

The surf break is well known among surfers, serving the past four years as the location where surfing world champions were ...

The Santa Cruz Surfing Museum overlooks one of the most renowned surfing spots in Santa Cruz – Steamer Lane. Along with historic surfing photographs and boards, the museum features a bevy of ...

here’s all you need to know about surfing in Santa Cruz. In the early 1950s, after the successful neoprene experiments of University of California, Berkeley physicist Hugh Bradner, surfer and ...

The California Surf Lifesaving Association honored Santa Cruz Fire Department marine safety officer Brendan Daly with the ...

More often than not, surf contests are about winning, ego, self-expression, or a combination of all three. Then there’s the ...

Santa Cruz’s Adam Bartlett advanced to Finals Day at the Word Surf League’s Live Like Zander ... and Lucas Cassity of Baja California Sur, Mexico, compete in Heat 1 of the semifinals on ...

Around 2:17 p.m., first responders in Santa Cruz County were notified about several people in the ocean who were struggling ...

You can also stop in to the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum along your stroll, which is stationed inside the Mark Abbott Memorial Lighthouse. Recent travelers and locals said West Cliff Drive is a must-do.