Black Surf Santa Cruz, founded by Esabella Bonner, is fostering community and healing through surfing in Santa Cruz.

Kurt Van Dyke, a longtime Costa Rica hotel owner who left California in the 1980s, was reportedly slain in his apartment on ...

Judicial authorities in Costa Rica are investigating the killing of a Santa Cruz native from a well-known surfing family who ...

A replica of the Paki redwood surfboard that a Hawaiian prince surfed in Santa Cruz in 1885 is brought to the Museum of Art and History in downtown Santa Cruz on Wednesday. The 15-foot-6.75-inch ...

SANTA CRUZ — When room ran out in his car, Bob “Doc” Scott bought a 15-seat bus and told all the young Santa Cruz surfing “groms” he could find to pile in. But they weren’t headed to campus. Related ...

How much is surfing worth to a community? In this case, it's not a metaphorical or emotional question. It’s financial. A newly released, first-of-its-kind study has a science-based deep dive into that ...

AND A CEREMONIAL PADDLE OUT. ACTION NEWS 8 REPORTER... JOYCE KIM... HAS THE DETAILS. # "1885 THREE PRINCES CAME HERE TO SANTA CRUZ, AND IT'S THE FIRST DOCUMENTED ...

In the summer of 1885, three teenage Hawaiian princes visiting Santa Cruz dragged hand-hewn, 17-foot redwood boards — each weighing more than 200 pounds — across the sand at Main Beach. Riding waves ...

The surfing community is mourning the loss of a legend whose family helped define the culture along the Santa Cruz coast.