After the Woolsey Fire: Community Resources

Four years after it was supposed to be finished …. a coalition of electric and wireless communications companies has finished converting the spindly wooden power poles in Malibu Canyon into steel poles. Southern California Edison announced yesterday that the project is done. 82 wooden poles removed. 65 steel poles installed. The project was ordered because […]

Could Malibu be drinking desalinated ocean water soon? And what would that mean for the ocean environment? How would the salty brine affect fish in Santa Monica Bay? The West Basin Municipal Water District is the wholesale water agency that buys water delivered from the State water project … and sells it to County waterworks […]

Traffic already jammed this morning with the signal timing … as caltrans tries to figure this out. And now comes word that one eastbound lane of P C H will be closed at 9 this morning. Some major decisions coming up on an independent Malibu school district … and the future of Malibu High. And […]

For decades … Gladstones For Fish restaurant has been a landmark on P C H … known for terrible food and a throng of tourists. Soon … no more. L-A’s Board of Supervisors today is scheduled to vote on a plan to evict Gladstone’s from its county owned primo ocean front spot at the foot […]

School may be out this week …. but two vital public meetings are coming up next week. The Monday … the Malibu city council will meet to discuss Santa Monica’s terms of surrender for an independent Malibu School District. The Santa Monica-based school board voted 6 to 1 last month to allow Malibu to have […]

Caltrans officials say they are working on the signal timing at the three traffic lights in central Malibu … where even during this spring break week … unusual traffic jams are occurring. Signals at Cross Creek Road … Webb Way … and Malibu Canyon Road have been put on timers and disconnected from roadway sensors […]

The first flush into a centralized sewer system in Malibu history is about to go down. Actually … it will be a test flow …. but it looks like the City of Malibu is about to do something that a lot of people said would never happen. The 60 million dollar plus Malibu Civic Center […]

This is the KBUU Newswire for Mon Apr 2: Three separate projects … three separate construction warnings for today in Malibu. The Malibu Beach Inn either may or may not take away a lane pn P C H at the pier today. The traffic lights at Cross Creek and Webb Way either are or are […]

At 6:45 this morning … traffic was already backed up on PCH at Webb Way and at Cross Creek Road. That … despite “Spring Break Light” traffic conditions everywhere else in L-A County. The 101 freeway’s 45 minute trips were 12 minutes today. There were no delays on PCH heading into Santa Monica. But the […]

A nasty political fight in Santa Monica continues to affect Malibu’s school district. Latino activists are represented by Malibu attorney Kevin Shenkman … as they seek to have the city convert to district voting for city council. Shenkman is getting depositions from city council members … and has told the court he wants to ask […]