SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KGO) -- Wildlife officials are now monitoring and attempting to capture an infamous sea otter who has a thing for surfers. U.S. Fish and Wildlife says this 5-year-old female otter ...

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 ...

Waves like the ones at Rincon, Leadbetter, Hammonds, and El Capitán created a need for boards that could move with the wave’s ...

This spring quarter, UC Santa Cruz Humanities students immersed themselves in the story of three Hawaiian princes who introduced surfing to the United States in the late 19th century, using Santa Cruz ...

Local Santa Cruz surfer Wilem Banks is heading to the 2025 Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational at Waimea Bay on the North Shore ...

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 ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KGO) -- It's no secret that sun and surf draw millions of people to California's beach towns. But now researchers in Santa Cruz are translating that wave into dollars and cents ...