California beaches

(Video credit: Long Beach State University.) Researchers from California State University, Long Beach and the University of Minnesota published an article earlier this month with insight on the location, movement and disposition of juvenile white sharks off Southern California beaches.

Researchers from California State University, Long Beach and the University of Minnesota published an article with insight on the location, movement and disposition of juvenile white sharks off Southern California beaches.

The $400,000 inflatable playground project from the City of Long Beach opens Saturday, giving some relief to local kids who have had to stay off the tantalizingly close structure.

Long Beach will host a floating playground on the beach. Gordon Tokumatsu reports on June 24, 2022.

Orange County led the way with 19 beaches making the cut, up from 10 last year.

Orange County beaches dominated an environmental group’s annual honor roll of coastline stretches with excellent year-round water-quality grades.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department announced Thursday deputies will patrol beaches from Playa del Rey to Malibu over the summer.

The beach cleanup began at 9 a.m. Saturday, and families and children showed up to help clear the beach of trash while learning about the environment. Lauren Coronado reports for Today in LA on Saturday, April 30, 2022.

A sewage spill in Newport Beach forced the closure of ocean waters from the west end of Newport Bay to 8th Street.

Check out the footage of the powerful volcanic eruption near Tonga, and then a live look from Saturday morning at the resulting tsunami waves in Newport Beach. Video aired during Today in LA on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022.

A sewer main line failed Thursday in the city of Carson and up to 4 million gallons of untreated sewage was discharged into the Dominguez Channel. The 70th annual Polar Bear Swim in Cabrillo Beach was canceled as a result.

Pyrosomes usually make their home deeper in the ocean, but in June 2021, several beachgoers encountered the strange creatures onshore.

Beaches were mostly empty over the warm weekend as Californians heeded stay-at-home orders in anticipation that Gov. Gavin Newsom might ease some restrictions this week, while some rural communities announced plans to reopen on their own timetable. In Orange County, where beaches were singled out for closure by the governor during the coronavirus pandemic, crowds were sparse as lifeguards and…