After the Woolsey Fire: Community Resources

L A County has banned smoking pot at Malibu beaches. The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday updated the county’s legal definition of “smoke” and “smoking.” Both vaping tobacco … and smoking marijuana … are now banned at L A County owned beaches, parks and government buildings. That includes the beach and beach parking lots at […]

Vandals have struck at the tot lot at Malibu Bluffs Park. City community services director Jesse Bobbett took the Parks and Recreation Commission on a tour at Bluffs Park yesterday. It was windy … but the damage was being repaired. NEWSCART 75041 PARKS QQQQ GO BACK AND LOOK AT THE CAMERAS “One thing we did […]

Over the last two years …  the number of reported residential burglaries increased by about 50 percent in Malibu.  And car burglaries are up 18 percent. The annual summer uptick in burglaries in Malibu has sheriff’s deputies proposing a plan. “Smash and grab” burglaries at parked cars … as well as thieves finding car keys […]

This is KBUU News – Day 140 – the Wednesday Headlines: =   Caltrans gets an earful from Malibu residents opposed to a new signal. =   Mayor Jefferson Wagner tries to convince the state to use an underpass for pedestrian crossings. =   three days after another whale gets hung up in a crab […]

We don’t know what happened to that grey whale spotted last weekend up the coast from Malibu … with a buoy line wrapped around it. At last word from Channel Island Harbor … the coast guard and federal wildlife officials were trying to come up with a plan to cut the lines. The buoy may […]

Caltrans officials say they will consider a compromise proposal from Malibu Mayor Jefferson Wagner on pedestrian crossing at the Malibu seafood restaurant. The state has proposed putting a traffic light at the busy section of Pacific Coast Highway. Hundreds of people cross the road on foot every day … walking between parking areas and the […]

This is KBUU News – Day 139 – the Tuesday Headlines: = Malibu city manager Reva Feldman’s  performance review is continued. = Only 17 burned down houses in Malibu fail to meet county water supply requirements. = And the county says it will speed up rebuilding the water system = Homeowners may be able to […]

Malibu’s city council met behind closed doors to discuss the future of the City Manager last night. City Attorney Christi Hogin emerged with the outcome. NEWSCART 75026 HOGIN EVAL “The council discussed the item that was listed on the posted agenda, which was the city manager’s performance evaluation, and did not complete the evaluation and […]

In news from down the coast … San Diego is also faced with a flood of homeless people living in cars near the beach. And San Diego officials said Monday … they will pass a new version of the city’s vehicle habitation law … which banned living in vehicles. The San Diego Union-Tribune reports a […]

U2 guitarist “The Edge” has lost permission to build his cluster of mansions atop a ridge overlooking the Malibu Pier. The Sierra Club was handed victory at the State Court of Appeal late last week. The appeal court reversed a lower court decision … and threw out a Coastal Commission decision to allow five residences […]