The KBUU Newswire

Asterisk: that Tuesday estimate is a wild, unofficial guess. About 25-hundred homes remain blacked out this morning. Work is nearly finished rebuilding the key electricity transmission line between the California power grid … and western Malibu. Line crews tell KBUU News they expect the Gallahad circuit … serving western Malibu … to be lit up […]

This is the latest news from Radio Malibu … FM 99.1 … KBUU: =  Edison predicts six more days of blackouts. =  The school district may have to push back reopening to two weeks after that. =  Some neighborhoods with underground lines get portable Edison generators … others do not. =  A skull tumbles out […]

In news from down the coast … Malibu lawyer Kevin Shenkman has won his lawsuit against the City of Santa Monica. A Superior Court judge last week ruled against the city … and said it has to implement district voting … for city council. This might affect the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District … […]

The SBA has issued a disaster declaration for Los Angeles County … and that makes low-interest federal disaster loans available to businesses and residents impacted by the Woolsey Fire. What is the SBA??? It’s the federal Small Business Administration. Businesses of all sizes … and nonprofit organizations … may borrow up to $2 million. This […]

The Santa Monica Mountains have given up one secret as result of the fire. A human skull and other bones were found in Latigo Canyon last week … according to sheriff’s deputies. A home owner checking his property about a mile north of Ocean View Boulevard … about 4 miles north of Pacific Coast Highway […]

The fire hit two weeks ago today. And the Southern California Edison Company has just let it be known that electric service in parts of western Malibu may not be restored for one more week. Thursday … November 29th … at 3 p m … to be exact. That’s the word given to the Santa […]

This is KBUU News – the headlines: =  No problems from gentle overnight rain. =  Reopening dates for Malibu High and Juan Cabrillo schools pushed back … again. =  High profile lawyers have filed lawsuits representing you … already … against the power company. =  And Malibu’s mayor meets the president … as PCH gets […]

Malibu mayor Rick Mullen was the city’s official host when Pres. Donald Trump arrived in Malibu last week. The visit was closed to local press … Pacific Coast highway was closed to all traffic for three hours … putting a stop to relief efforts. The city’s mayor says he was brought to meet the president […]

The reopening date for Malibu High School has been pushed back … again. This time … the culprit is testing for PCB … the chemical that was used in the 1960s to glue things together. Superintendent Ben Drati announced yesterday that both Malibu High and adjacent Juan Cabrillo Elementary Will need testing for the suspected […]

Lawyers are lining up to file lawsuits against Southern California Edison. SCE has told the California Public Utility Commission that an electric substation had experienced a disturbance two minutes before the fire was first reported. The fire started at the same SCE facility where the substation is located. R. Rex Parris…  a lawyer from Lancaster […]