Children, young adults and families from Covenant House, Girls Inc and My Friends Place participated in arts and crafts, boogie boarding, and surfing at Zuma Beach on Friday, July 12, at the Children’s Lifesaving Foundation's Surf Camp 4 All event.

Amelia Goudzwaard drove through the apocalypse on Nov. 9 looking for salvation.

With open and imaginative minds, children took an interactive look at some of the food-foraging tactics of the region’s avian inhabitants during the latest session of the Santa Monica Mountains National Parks’ junior ranger program.

“Something troublesome is definitely going on in the ocean,” said Heather Henderson, marine mammal stranding coordinator for the California Wildlife Center during a presentation at the Malibu Library on July 9.

Lifeguards train all their lives for worst-case scenarios; last November, Malibu saw one.