Three people were rescued from the wharf. The powerful surf also fatally trapped a man under debris on a beach in Santa Cruz, ...

Santa Cruz’s wharf partially collapsed Monday as a powerful storm battered a central California beach, sweeping three people ...

In the high surf warning, the NWS says that large waves can pull people into the sea from rocks or jetties without warning.

Monday’s collapse was reminiscent of an incident in winter of 2023 when the Seacliff State Beach pier was pummeled beyond repair by a heavy winter storm. Elsewhere in Santa Cruz, East Cliff ...

The last 150 feet of the wharf collapsed into the Monterey Bay at around 12:45pm, city officials said. The city had already ...

Three people fell into the water when more than a hundred feet of the Santa Cruz Wharf collapsed ... the strongest swimmers out to sea.” The end of the pier had already been closed off from ...

As large waves produced by a winter storm pummeled the California coast Monday, a portion of the Santa Cruz pier collapsed ... damaged the iconic pier at Seacliff State Beach in nearby Aptos.

A portion of the Santa Cruz pier collapsed and floated out to sea as high surf pounded the California ... that "Dangerous and life-threatening beach conditions are forecast with very high surf ...