Peak beach season isn’t always peak experience. On the West Coast, the so-called off-season delivers cheaper rooms, moody ...

An otter is hopping on surfboards in Santa Cruz's storied Steamers Lane. Two years ago, a similar situation played out in ...

A sea otter in Santa Cruz, California, is known for harassing surfers and stealing their surfboards.

Roarke Brown, a charter boat captain since 1972 in this picturesque fishing village, remembers being able to tread out onto ...

A sea otter has resumed attacking surfers and taking their boards at Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz, California. Isabella Orduna was surfing Wednesday evening when the otter bit her foot and climbed onto ...

Two years after Otter 841 menaced wave riders near Santa Cruz, there have been new encounters between the furry marine ...

A 1990s sea otter t-shirt worn by Taylor Swift in her new film sparked a $2.2M fundraiser for Monterey Bay Aquarium’s sea otter program🦦💙 ...

San Francisco (AP) — A Northern California aquarium has raised more than $2 million for sea otter conservation in just two days. All it took was Taylor Swift wearing a vintage T-shirt. Swift wore a ...

SANTA CRUZ — When a colleague passed the photo along to sea otter expert Gena Bentall, she thought it was fake. “The first thing I said was ‘That is 100% AI (artificial intelligence),” Bentall said ...