Pacifica

An 11-year-old boy was arrested by Pacifica police Wednesday for allegedly starting a vegetation fire with fireworks.

A dead whale was found in Pacifica between Mori Point and Sharp Park Beach. 

The Pacifica Police Department is investigating two cases of theft, one at Oceana High School and another at Sunset Ridge Elementary School.

More than a dozen alleged members and associates of an MS-13 "clique" in San Francisco are facing charges related to gang-related killings and racketeering, according to federal prosecutors.

San Mateo County Health Department officials notified the city of Pacifica Friday that Linda Mar Beach could be reopened to the public following review of ocean testing.

Pacifica police say a woman fell from a bluff and died Sunday morning while she was hiking along a trail at Mori Point. 

A fire Saturday evening at a home in Pacifica has displaced all eight people living there. The cause of the blaze is under investigation.

Nemanja Spasojevic says he was snorkeling off the coast of Grey Whale Cove State Beach in San Mateo County when he was bit by a great white shark.

The surfer said he believed he was bitten by a 6- to 8-foot-long great white shark, which sunk its teeth into his leg 10 times.

A female body was found in the water at Pedro Point in Pacifica on Thursday morning and her death is now under investigation, police said.

A dead whale was spotted Friday afternoon at Pacifica State Beach, officials with the Marine Mammal Center confirms.

A Nebraska father, who was arrested more than 1,600 hundred miles away in Pacifica over the weekend, has been charged in the death of his two young children who were found dead in his home, south of Omaha. 

The parents of a 12-year-old boy who was swept off a San Mateo County beach and into the Pacific Ocean in January said they didn’t know the hidden danger of sneaker waves that sometimes strike the Northern California coast.

Police in Pacifica arrested two Hayward residents early Saturday after a car chase that ended with a collision.

Firefighters are wrapping up a cliff rescue operation in Pacifica after working to help a man stuck on a cliff at Mori Point.

A woman and her dog were rescued by firefighters Saturday morning after they became stranded on a Pacifica cliff.

Violations at Pacifica Beach Yoga, located at 1615 Oceana Blvd., included holding indoor “mask-free” yoga classes when gyms and yoga studios are under state health orders to close indoor operations. The studio's owner had already been fined more than $3,700. 

Emergency repairs are being made to the seawall and pier in Pacifica after recent King Tides created a void at the bottom of the seawall.