A Santa Cruz resident is set to appear on “Shark Tank” with a business proposal for surfers. Two people, including Santa Cruz resident Davon Larson, are pitching a surf helmet called “Surf Skull” that ...

The surfer, identified as 19-year-old Nathaniel John Ramirez, was pronounced dead Nov. 7, two days after he was rescued from ...

Ramirez died two days after crews rescued him and another surfer just after 9 a.m. from The Hook, a popular surfing beach ...

One of two surfers rescued at The Hook in Capitola in early November has died, according to the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s ...

SANTA CRUZ — Doug Haut has done a lot to shape the surfing culture of Santa Cruz, in more ways than one. In the literal sense, he has constructed, or “shaped,” an estimated 30,000-plus surfboards ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KGO) -- Saturday, July 19, marks the 140th anniversary of an event that made Santa Cruz a top surfing destination. It's a bit of surfing history not too many people know about, but ...

The evolution of surfing had gone from a kid’s pastime to a serious sport. Who knew these youthful pursuits were history in the making? In 1885, three Hawaiian princes, David (age 17, the future king ...