Santa Cruz residents and tourists celebrated the reopening of the iconic wharf on Saturday morning after a 150-foot portion collapsed into the water nearly two weeks ago amid a surge of strong waves.

The Santa Cruz Harbor is working on cleaning up the aftermath of massive waves that damaged hundreds of boats Christmas week. The Santa Cruz Harbor is working on cleaning up the aftermath of ...

The clean-up effort along the Santa Cruz ... boats. Officials said the damage was comparable to what happened during the 2011 tsunami. While much attention has been focused on the dramatic wharf ...

As a series of winter storms slammed California’s coast with powerful rip currents and towering waves, part of the Santa Cruz Wharf collapsed ... adding boat landings and creating more retail ...

A part of the Santa Cruz Wharf ... their boats or other devices out in the water." The mayor said city personnel were "assessing...the structural integrity of the wharf" given the incoming storm ...

RELATED: Why Santa Cruz Harbor was ... Much of the wharf debris was channeled into the harbor as well, which significantly added to the damage to boats and harbor infrastructure.

To many locals, it feels like Santa Cruz’s ... has been on the wharf for 40 years, and although he remembers storms that caused significant damage — pilings cracking or boats crashing ...

To many locals, it feels like Santa Cruz's picturesque ... part of the wharf broke off. His family's business has been on the wharf for 40 years, and although he remembers storms that caused ...

To many locals, it feels like Santa Cruz's picturesque ... been on the wharf for 40 years, and although he remembers storms that caused significant damage — pilings cracking or boats crashing ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - An atmospheric river event that generated storm systems along the West Coast caused the partial collapse of Santa Cruz’s wharf and damaged several boats as a surge of water raced ...