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Stores are being boarded up … in case of election-related violence … in Santa Monica and Beverly Hills. In Malibu … sheriff’s Captain Chuck Becerra says … and we quote … “We do not anticipate any protests or problems in our area on Election Day.” But Becerra says … out of an abundance of caution… […]

L A County supervisors are considering taking Malibu out of the sheriff’s department. Not just Malibu … all of the 40 or so small cities in L A County that hire the L A county sheriff’s office to be their municipal police forces. Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas says major California cities get to hire their […]

From F-M 99.1 … KBUU News … the Friday Headlines = Voting by district in Malibu is not dead … the state Supreme Court wants the case. = It’s election time. Two polling places open tomorrow in Malibu. = Teachers may lose their veto power over school reopenings in Los Angeles. = Santa Monica’s police […]

After six years and 21 million dollars spent on engineering and legal fees … the Broad Beach sand replenishment project is still at least two years away from placing one grain of sand. And if the legal meeting yesterday is any indication … the 30 million project may be bogged down in a morass of […]

Malibu’s Planning Commission has rejected complaints about 5-G cellphone towers … raised by a small and very vocal group of activists. The commission Monday night unanimously approved installation of a new Verizon antenna … on top of a power pole on Point Dume. Verizon’s new tower is not 5-G … but it will be some […]

Southern California Edison has consistently refused to reveal what triggers intentional power outages during high winds. Just how high do the winds have to blow … before the power company will intentionally cut the power to Malibu … and other fire danger areas?? Before the city council … before citizens groups … and in interviews […]

No parking signs may go up at Corral Beach … banning overnight parking from midnight to 2 A-M on one side of the street … and then from 2 to 4 on the other. 45 signs will go up … under city plans approved by the Planning Commission Monday night. But only at Corral Beach […]

KBUU HAS ALL NEWS ALL MORNING. AT LEAST UNTIL 9:30 … THEN SMART ROCK. = Complaints about alleged cellphone tower radiation … dismissed by the Malibu Planning Commission. = Verizon gets permission to improve wireless service on Point Dume. But not Cross Creek. = New coronavirus cases drop to record lows on the westside. = […]

= Malibu city council candidates react to the overwhelming increase in overnight parking along P C H. = After 6 years and 21 million dollars … not one grain of replacement sand on Broad beach. = And now … board members … residents and neighbors are asking if the wheels have come off this wagon. […]

= 85 degrees was the overnight low up at the higher elevations this morning. = Winds of up to 30 miles an hour … still blowing. = Broad Beach homeowners ensnared in four separate lawsuits over plans to bring in 21 thousand truckloads of sand. = The sheriff’s oversight commission wants Alex Villanueva to resign […]