While already on alert because of the high surf that hit the Monterey Bay coast Monday, Santa Cruz Lifeguards Lts. Isaiah Mullen and Sam Hofmann, stationed on a Jet Ski in the water near Cowell Beach, ...

Visitors to Seabright State Beach this week walk past debris that came ashore following the collapse of a section of the Santa Cruz Wharf on Monday. Pilings, beams and a myriad of material from the ...