Long before the shops and restaurants or the plaza and the iconic pier were built, before Huntington Beach rose to fame as Surf City, Native American tribes called this region home. Recognizing that ...

The U.S. Open of Surfing has long been a must-do summer beach event, an event that draws locals and visitors from around the globe to not just check out some of today’s best surfers, but also a ...

Few people know the waves on the south side of the Huntington Beach Pier as well as Kanoa Igarashi — and his experience at the surf spot showed during his first heat of the day Saturday, Aug. 2, as ...

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Huntington Beach is known as a wave magnet, a surf spot that is rideable just about every day of the year. But a few days a year, the ocean can look more like a lake in the beach town dubbed “Surf ...

On July 29, an 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. It prompted tsunami warnings across the Pacific region. Tsunami waves reached Hawaii and the West Coast but evacuation ...