With the summer on the horizon, the Southern California waves are starting to call the names of many, including a French bulldog who has made surfing her charitable hobby.

Dogs and humans alike took to the water Saturday for the World Dog Surfing Championship in Pacifica, California.

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Surf’s up in California, where it’s now the official state sport. Gov. Jerry Brown announced Monday that he has signed a bill making it so.

American surfer Kelly Slater, whose resume includes 55 career wins and 11 world championships, will retire after the 2019 season, according to surfing website The Inertia. Slater emerged as the youngest champion in the men’s sport’s history, according to his World Surf League profile. The Cocoa Beach, Florida, native first won a championship in 1992 at age 20. He is...

Surfer Mick Fanning, the three-time world champion known as “White Lightning,” ended his 17-season career Wednesday, riding his last competitive wave at the Rip Pro Curl Bells Beach in Australia. In what was supposed to be a storybook retirement for the 36-year-old veteran, Fanning was unable to best the young Brazilian Italo Ferreira on the final wave of the day...

Big wave surfer Andrew Cotton suffered a broken back while surfing one of the world’s biggest waves.

Japan began its three-year countdown to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on Monday with concerts, races and other events meant to drum up public enthusiasm for the games. The 2020 Games will be Japan’s first summer Olympics since the 1964 edition in Tokyo. After a rocky start, organizers are gearing up to get the public more involved. A 15-day, 1,000-kilometer (about...

Bay Area pet lovers rejoice. Pacifica’s Linda Mar dog-friendly beach has been chosen as the site for the first annual Surf Dog global competition on Saturday morning.

Surfing team tryouts in California were interrupted by a four-legged friend who apparently wanted to get in on the fun.

Surfing team tryouts in Dana Point were interrupted by a deer who apparently wanted to get in on the fun on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016.

It’s a feat that few have the bravery or physical ability to attempt: taking on one of the world’s most dangerous waves while competing against the best surfers in the sport. But Bethany Hamilton, who lost her left arm to a shark at age 13, charges the waves. Now 26, she knocked the top-ranked female surfer out of the competition...

Surfing is difficult for many people to master, but for Mitchell Solomon-Coombs, the sport poses an especially unique challenge because the 22-year-old is unable to walk.

The remarkable journey of New Jersey’s Sky Blue FC soccer star Nadia Nadim, who fled Afghanistan after her Army general father was executed by the Taliban, and then landed in Denmark, where she’s studying to become a doctor.

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