Nestled along the northeastern edge of the San Rafael peninsula sits China Camp State Park, a 1,500-acre haven that somehow remains one of California’s best-kept secrets.

A children’s book about Kahoʻolawe written and illustrated by Native Hawaiians has been earning national praise. HPR’s Catherine Cluett Pactol caught up with the author.

A team of Australian bodyboarding ratbags has managed to capture staggering footage of an extraordinary oceanic phenomenon: a place where four 12-ft (3.7-m) waves regularly converge into an oval dip, ...