Santa Cruz County’s coastline isn’t just a place to surf or stroll — it’s a stage for some of the best seafood dining experiences in the region, where menus packed with chowder, cioppino, steamed ...

Lookout photojournalist Kevin Painchaud spent a couple days wandering through Santa Cruz County and chatting with locals ...

Santa Cruz hosted its 29th annual Woodies on the Wharf event, showcasing over 130 vintage wood-bodied wagons and offering live entertainment and local merchandise.

Canadian scientists investigate the rare and terrifying phenomenon of rogue waves.

Instead of beginning at the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf, the 6-mile contest, now in its 53rd year, will fire the starting pistol along Portola Drive between 26th and 38th avenues. Participants will … ...

On Saturday, 140 years to the day of the princes’ surfing exhibition in Santa Cruz, the museum will be honoring the occasion ...

In the opening segment of Pat Stacy’s 2022 film The Color of Winter, featuring Rob Machado and the waves of North County San Diego, we get an inside look at Rob’s famous 1978 Dodge van ...

When rogue waves breaking out in the middle of the ocean come to mind, for surfers at least, one spot comes to mind – Cortes Bank, the mythical big wave gauntlet breaking some 100 miles off the ...