The biggest-ever crowd for a Surfing Santas event at Cocoa Beach, more than 10,000 strong, showed up on Christmas Eve to ...

For their heroics after a wave of bomb threats in New Jersey on Election Day, more than two dozen dogs were presented with an award from the state attorney general.

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Surfing Santas is an annual Christmas Eve event in Cocoa Beach, Florida, where hundreds of surfers dress in festive costumes. The event is free to attend and raises money for the Florida Surf Museum ...

The Marion County Auditor’s Office has announced the winners of this year’s Top Dog Essay Contest. Millie Gates, a fourth-grade student at Heritage Elementary, took first place with her essay about ...

A surfer competes in the third annual Diva Cup Surf Invitational, San Luis Obispo County’s only woman’s surf competition, in Cayucos on Nov. 22, 2025. JEREMY BISHOP Laughter, surf boards and stoke ...

Before the National Dog Show taped in Philadelphia, it held an off-book barking contest. Here’s what barking tells us about dogs. Wilbur, a beagle owned by Mary Cummings of Endwell, New York, adds his ...

On November 22, 2025, the 3rd annual Diva Cup Surf Invitational will be back at Cayucos Pier. The event is both a surf competition–for women, by women–and a fundraiser for the Femme Futures Foundation ...

Post up at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort & Spa, home to a 20,000-square-foot spa, multiple pools, and ocean views just steps from the sand. Head to Huntington City Beach to stroll the ...

PISMO BEACH, Calif. (KEYT) - Day one of the three-day Surfing For Hope competition had to be cancelled due to high surf at Pismo Beach today. Surfing For Hope is a non-profit dedicated to easing the ...

Winners of cutest dog contests held at more than 20 McClatchy newspapers this fall are now facing off in a national competition. Photo by Joe Caione on Unsplash Some of the cutest dogs in the nation ...