The KBUU Newswire

=.  Last night’s power outage cost Malibu taxpayers 500 thousand dollars, district says.. =.  The city council meeting is cancelled … the Malibu High vote put off. =.  You know how they always say … beware long term solar contracts??? =.  Malibu taxpayers are on the hook for a half million dollars to get out […]

=.    20 percent chance of thunderstorms resumes inland … hot and humid on the coast. =.    Malibu Elementary school kids are told a bad biting dog was loose on campus … it was actually an active shooter drill.  =.   The city wants to move noisy LAX jet takeoffs from the Civic Center […]

=.  The water is 72 … the humidity is 75 … and the air is 82 at sunrise.  =.  With winds shifting to the south as the tropical cyclone arrives … we could get an inch and a half of rain this weekend. =.  Or not … we haven’t seen weather like this in decades. […]

=.  A hurricane moving up from Baja sends solid head high waves and overhead sets … water is 70. =.  Five degrees hotter on the beach today … five degrees hotter tomorrow …  =.  But that hurricane may send one half to one full inch of rain to Malibu Saturday. =.  The county supervisors are […]

=.  A little cooler today on the coast … but … more humid and maybe thunderstorms later… =.  Hurricane Kay is expected to push unsettled tropical weather into Malibu in five days. =.  110 degrees inland and 70 degree water … the Zuma Beach parking lot filled up Sunday.  =.   Heat records sizzle away […]

Power Shortage Statewide May Cause Blackouts, Wheezing Old Hueneme Power Plant Generates 100 Noise Complaints Rotating power outages “are a possibility but not an inevitability” in California this weekend … as some power plants are making unusual noises … and others are failing outright …  Up the coast at Port Hueneme … police say they […]

As Dark Skies Ordinance Nears, String Lights Are Already Illegal In Malibu Efforts continue to educate Malibu residents and business owners about the Dark Skies ordinance. The requirements are supported bt a large majority of Malibu residents … but the technical rules are going to require almost every homeowner to make changes.  Taht is the […]

By a 2 to 2 vote last night … the Malibu city council decided not to pursue getting back 1.5 million dollars that previous city councils had donated to the county library system, That left councilman Bruce Silverstein threatening to move to yank Malibu out of the county library system … assuming he has two […]

A legal gambit drafted by Councilmember Bruce Silverstein and signed on by the Malibu city council went down in flames before the California Coastal Commission Friday … when the Coastal Commission said all rules governing short term vacation rentals in the city are null and void. By a 5 to 3 vote … the commission […]

Longtime Malibu resident and businesswoman Olicvia Newton John has died … of cancer … at age 73. The megastar singer and movie star lost her long battle with breast cancer. In the 80s and 90s … Olivia Newton John owned a small clothing store in Malibu. She worked as a volunteer at Webster Elementary … […]