A mini city on the beach is being built on the south side of the Huntington Beach Pier in anticipation of summer’s biggest action-sports beach festival, the Lexus US Open of Surfing, an event that has ...

As each freestyle motorcycle rider turned, flipped and chucked their bikes and bodies through the sky, right on the sand with the ocean just feet away, spectator Tina Greenwood would scream with glee.

Laguna Beach surfer Avalon Gall entered the US Open of Surfing longboard contest as a wildcard, never imagining she would make the podium with her first-ever big win. “It’s very surreal, I’m just ...