This year, attendees experienced a special highlight with one Santa leaping from a helicopter to celebrate the occasion.

Every year, Cocoa Beach, Florida, stages the effervescent "Surfing Santas" event, a "surf-off" and costume contest attended ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) The Santa Barbara Surf Film Festival celebrated its 5th event. The two-day festival took place at the Lobero Theatre. Surfers and surfing film fans came out. The festival ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - One of the best ways to empower and strengthen a person's mental health in order to better ride life's big waves, is through surfing. Just ask Shaun Tomson. The 1977 ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KGO) -- Saturday, July 19, marks the 140th anniversary of an event that made Santa Cruz a top surfing destination. It's a bit of surfing history not too many people know about, but ...

This spring quarter, UC Santa Cruz Humanities students immersed themselves in the story of three Hawaiian princes who introduced surfing to the United States in the late 19th century, using Santa Cruz ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KGO) -- It's no secret that sun and surf draw millions of people to California's beach towns. But now researchers in Santa Cruz are translating that wave into dollars and cents ...