Skateboarding

If you've had as many near misses with skateboarders as I or had your wife threatened by six skateboarders and their chase car driver, I believe you too would want skateboarders banned from the steep hills of Laguna. In response to this last incident, I...

Yesterday we saw Microsoft, Electronic Arts and Ubisoft throw at us their best and brightest games of 2010. Overall the gameplay and trailers were improved. Someone in their marketing departments finally realized that the core audience watching these...

Skateboarding pro Paul Rodriguez and legendary skate artist Don Pendleton have teamed up with Mountain Dew to announce the Green Label Art: Shop Series contest, in which 35 skate shops nationwide are competing to have their artwork featured on a......

For downhill skateboarders, the feeling of tucking your hands behind your back and bombing down one of Laguna Beach's steep canyon roads is euphoric: the pressure of G-force as you bank turns, the wind on your face and the blur......

A group of Laguna Beach residents wants to put the brakes on skateboarding on Laguna's precipitous downhill streets. The proposal will be on the Parking, Traffic and Transportation Committee's July 22 agenda. Previous attempts to restrict street...

Many of us in town are celebrating the one-year anniversary of Mission Hospital. Most of what we read concerns the hospital as a neighbor, specifically noise problems. Last week the Coastline had a letter focused on the religious orientation of the...

Skateboarders and supporters of limits on the activity gave the Parking Traffic and Circulation Committee an earful last week, but neither side will know how well they pitched their cases for at least eight weeks. Testimony presented by speakers, who...

I am a homeowner on Bluebird Canyon Lane. I was born in South Coast Hospital and grew up in Laguna. Next year my 5-year-old is starting at Top of the World Elementary School, my 11-year-old is starting at Thurston Middle School, and my 14-year-old...

Police are investigating a 15-year-old's report that a driver deliberately hit him while he was skateboarding July 28, Lt. Jason Kravetz said. The skateboarder said he and a 13-year-old companion, both from Laguna Beach, were on Temple Hills Drive...

Rob Dyrdek wants kids to do kick flips in their backyards and dream of taking those tricks to Street League Skateboarding. “A parent sees their kid skating; they have no idea what that means,” Dyrdek said. “There’s nothing to equate......