VISTA, Calif. — The skateboard ramp made headline news 45 years ago, when it was just 8 feet wide. It was the creation of Tom Stewart, who lived in Encinitas at the time. In 1977, a reporter from CBS ...

May 29—Near the center of Foster Skate Park, there's a red bank of concrete with a curb on top of it. For many young skaters at the park, it blends in with the park's aesthetic of plain concrete with ...

On a crisp, sunny morning here, a dozen or so teenagers in baggy jeans do their best to defy gravity. At a newly built skateboard park, they zip through the gray-white hills and valleys with abandon, ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A skateboarding revolution is rolling forward at Ray High School. What started as a student-led idea is now CCISD's first-ever official skateboarding club. Not only that, the ...

With a dizzying eight-second drop down a ramp built off the side of a 22-storey building, Brazilian skateboarding legend Sandro Dias, 50, fulfilled a longtime dream and smashed two world records. Dias ...