Surfers wait for waves as the sun goes down the day before the beach is scheduled to close during the coronavirus outbreak, Thursday, April 30, 2020, in Newport Beach, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill ...

Surf schools in Southern California do good business, especially in the summer months, and now Jason Murchison, owner of Learn to Surf, is fighting for his slice of the pie. This week Murchison filed ...

Brian Melstrom certainly brought a team approach to his first year coaching the Newport Harbor High surf team. Melstrom, a longtime swimming and water polo coach for the Sailors, took over as surf ...

Jason Murchison wants his office to be the beach, the ocean waves his classroom. The longtime surf instructor filed a lawsuit in January against Newport Beach, arguing the town’s permitting system ...

In Newport Beach, surfing instructor Jason Murchison is being treated like “this Jesse-James-style criminal,” as he puts it. The city has been in a legal dispute with Jason — a 41-year-old former Navy ...

A Beach Hazard Statement is in effect for much of coastal Southern California amid a busy Independence Day weekend where hundreds of people were rescued in one community alone on Friday. That ...