The Santa Monica Pier ranked among California's most polluted beaches for the fifth consecutive year, according to Heal the Bay's annual Beach Report Card.
A year after high surf led to flooding on the Balboa Peninsula, a sand shortage has officials in three Orange County cities calling for a replenishment program to help stave off rising seawater.
"When I pulled him up, I noticed there was just a big chunk of skin missing from his shoulder." A 9-year old boy who was on a family vacation in Florida was attacked by a shark off Miami Beach.
A 73-year-old snorkeler from California was bitten by a shark estimated to be 8 feet long off the coast of Maui.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is trying to inspire people to keep physical distancing as things reopen with a visual treat.
Harrowing video shows powerful waves sweeping a man into the ocean at Bonny Doon Beach in Santa Cruz County.