These days, summer vacation is more than sitting by the pool or biking around the neighborhood.

Between those Santa Monica peaks and the Pacific waves, you'll find lavishness, sure, but also plenty of down-to-earth soul.

The South Bay Beach Cities look as if they’ve been plucked from a Beach Boys song.

TV may still be a relatively young medium, but every decade since its invention, including the '70s, has produced an ...

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is developing a TV adaptation of The Castaways author Lucy Clarke’s thriller The Surf House, about chaos in a traveler sanctuary in Morocco. Industry and Tell Me Lies director Ed ...

Capitola is about to get a female surfer sculpture, so here is a history of Santa Cruz County women surfers. Santa Cruz is the first mainland surfing culture known outside of Hawaii. In 1885, three ...

For both folks who live in the area or enjoy a lot of time here, there are two great ways we remember summer. The first is ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred A mother and her two children were swept into ...

Kerry Washington, Kara Young, Kecia Lewis, Dominique Fishback, and Danielle Pinnock are about to step inside the wildly imaginative world that first introduced audiences to the creative genius of ...

The largest south swell in years showed up at Southern California beaches on Tuesday, June 9, bringing hazardous conditions and several rescues up and down the coast, with lifeguards warning ...

A desperate search was underway Wednesday after a5-year-old girl was swept away off the Orange County coast when powerful surf dragged her, her sibling and their mother into the ocean near Laguna ...

Treasure Island Beach in Laguna Beach, California. A family beach trip turned terrifying when rough surf swept three people into the ocean, leaving a young girl missing. — Google Maps A family beach ...