This story begins ten years ago in the year 2000. My transition from Northern California to San Diego, specifically Pacific Beach, specifically one block up from a great surfing beach, was complete.

As part of the big Vans U.S. Open of Surfing, the Surfers’ Hall of Fame holds its annual induction ceremony. This year, the party is at 10 a.m. July 26. It is held in the Surfers’ Hall of Fame Plaza ...

Hoffman carried a Skip Frye board to the back of his 1963 Corvair van. Peggy Peattie / Union-Tribune photos Summer might be beach season, but now is when the surf picks up. San Diego is blessed with a ...

SAN DIEGO — When her husband, surfing legend Skip Frye, got sick from surfing in polluted water, Donna Frye decided to get political. She went to the City Council and asked that it fix the leaky sewer ...

A surfboard belonging to a La Jolla man who apparently suffered some type of medical trauma and died helped to identify the victim. Surfers found William Joseph Ryan, 50, in the water, slumped over ...

The San Diego surf scene has had lots of personalities over the decades. The city has been home to some founding fathers of surf culture. Woody Brown, Skeeter Malcolm, Jim “Mouse” Robb, Doc Paskowitz ...