Kurt Van Dyke, a longtime Costa Rica hotel owner who left California in the 1980s, was reportedly slain in his apartment on ...

Santa Cruz surfing legend Kurt Van Dyke was found slain on Valentine’s Day in Costa Rica, friends and family said. They said ...

Kurt Van Dyke, a Santa Cruz surfing legend who later settled in Costa Rica, was killed Saturday during a home invasion in ...

SANTA CRUZ — A Santa Cruz native and the adult son of a legendary California surfing family was killed last weekend in Costa Rica in what appears to be a homicide, according to early investigative ...

The surfing community is mourning the loss of a legend whose family helped define the culture along the Santa Cruz coast.