A backlit wave at Steamer Lane highlights a surfer riding a glassy face as the Monterey Bay stretches out to the south. Late afternoon winter light combined with large translucent waves have been ...

A surfer glided ahead of a backlit wave at Steamer Lane this week while riding the swell past the Mark Abbott Memorial Lighthouse at Lighthouse Point in Santa Cruz. Recent surf conditions have ...

A surfer tames the powerful northwest swell that poured into Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz on Monday as afternoon sunlight backlights a large wave face.

Sad news out of Northern California this week, after the University of California, Santa Cruz, confirmed the death of a male undergraduate student who went missing on Sunday after jumping off the ...