Hurricane Marie

(Newser) - Fans hoping to see the Killers, Sublime, and Jack White on the sand in Santa Monica will have to wait. The Ocean Way Festival, a two-day beachfront event in California planned for later this month, has been called off after powerful surf and storm runoff carved away a large chunk...

(Newser) - Southern California is seeing the kind of epic surf usually associated with Hawaii or Tahiti. Beaches are thronged with wave riders, and crowds are coming to watch the action even as seaside communities try to stave off damage from the ocean onslaught. A third day of waves spawned by the...

(Newser) - A massive hurricane is moving north from Mexico's coast, and while it's not expected to hit land in the US, Southern California can expect some huge and possibly dangerous waves starting today and peaking tomorrow, authorities say. Hurricane Marie is weakening slightly, but some surf spots could see...