It’s a cold offshore morning at one of Santa Cruz’s most frequented pointbreaks, a roping right with steep walls and clean sections. The sun has not yet cleared the horizon, but a long-period swell is ...

A Santa Cruz surfing icon has died. Robert Thomas Scott, known affectionately as “Doc,” passed away at Dominican Hospital. He was 97 years old. Doc was a man of medicine, dedicating his life to ...

SANTA CRUZ – Every time a massive swell is forecast, Santa Cruz’s hard-charging, big wave surfer Alessandro “Alo” Slebir can hardly contain himself. Several times each winter, Slebir drives an hour up ...

Santa Cruz surfer Alessandro “Alo” Slebir surfed a wave just two days before Christmas that could get him the best gift a surfer could ask for: a world record for surfing the world’s largest wave.

At an awards ceremony Saturday night, 24-year-old Santa Cruz surfer Alessandro “Alo” Slebir will finally find out if he set a new world record while riding the towering wave at Mavericks last winter — ...

The clouds parted, and the sun peeked out. Perfect timing for a celebration of life, honoring Bob “Doc” Scott, a legendary Santa Cruz surfer and inventor, who was memorialized on Monday with a ...