Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A crowd stands at Surf Beach, just outside Lompoc, waiting for a rocket to launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base. (Keith Plocek ...

All sections of Surf, Wall and Minuteman beaches have fully reopened to the public as of Thursday, concluding the annually enforced restriction period that protects the threatened Western Snowy Plover ...

Seasonal restrictions designed to protect the Western snowy plover and its nesting habitat went into effect Sunday for Surf Beach and Ocean Park at Vandenberg Space Force Base. Lisa André covers ...