Ocean Surfing

The fifth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season is now a hurricane, and the National Hurricane Center's forecast shows Hurricane Earl growing to "major" proportions and making a sweep up the East Coast late this week.For now, the center of the........

by Mark Silva and updated. In the realm of seaside politics and runaway metaphors, the junior senator from Illinois would seem to be catching a certain wave. Along an overlook on the South Shore of Oahu, Barack Obama also visited......

Residents - sitting Presidents included - of Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket are under tropical storm warnings today as Hurricane Bill spins northward off the U.S. East Coast.Bill remains a 105-mph Category 2 storm, and its.......

That storm off the Carolinas continues to churn on Thursday, stoked by energy and Gulf moisture from the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida. Coupled with the high over New England, the two weather engines are sending northeast and east winds......

Tropical Storm Colin may be weak, and it appears to pose no danger of a U.S. landfall as it passes west of Bermuda this weekend. But the storm is likely to kick up strong surf along Maryland and Delaware beaches.If you're......

The big low-pressure system riding up the east Coast today is driving northeast winds onto the mid-Atlantic beaches this Wednesday morning. The National Weather Service has posted Coastal Flood Advisories for the Maryland shore:"AT OCEAN CITY INLET...HIGH...

Even with the cold-then-hot-then-cold again temperatures, fishing action is finally starting to heat up all over the Lehigh Valley. Trout are biting, the shad are running, and walleye season is about to start. Over at the New Jersey and Delaware shores,...

A search is underway for a 34-year-old swimmer who went missing off Salt Creek Beach in Dana Point where high surf and rough seas are reported. The man went missing sometime around 7:30 p.m. Sunday, authorities said. The search for......

The search for a swimmer missing for more than 24 hours in the rough ocean surf off the Dana Point coastline was called off late Monday afternoon by three Orange County agencies. Frank Daniel Austin, 34, of Rowland Heights, was......

At Huntington Beach's fifth annual Blessing of the Waves, an interfaith service sponsored by the Diocese of Orange, Tom Morey — the inventor of the Boogie Board — will represent the Baha'i Faith. Singer-songwriter Summer Watson, who has toured...

A 39-year-old surfer killed in a shark attack off the waters of Central California is survived by a wife and a young daughter, friends said. Francisco Javier Solorio Jr. of Orcutt was described as an avid surfer who had been......

A high-surf advisory has been issued for part of the Southern California coast as gusty winds move through the area beginning Tuesday afternoon....