Singers and scribes have waxed poetic for decades about the best beaches in California—here, find our favorites.

A long stretch of ocean water along Los Angeles County coastline will be indefinitely ... contact with water and sand from Las Flores State Beach in Malibu to Santa Monica State Beach.

At the same time that the beaches are closed, the county has issued an ocean water quality rain advisory for all Los Angeles County beaches until Thursday morning. The advisory warns beach users ...