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Pacific Coast Highway is open to drive between Malibu and Santa Monica? At 8 this morning … the City of Los Angeles got its act together and reopened the vital state highway.  Yesterday was a day of total official confusion … as PCH opened, closed, opened, closed, and then halfway opened. LA police … the […]

KBUU thanks its team of engineers: Josh Bohn, Mike Hutchens, Diane Laetz, Mike Worrell and Jim Toten.  Our producer is Diane Laetz. Some Residents Protest EPA Transfer Station At Topanga Beach Some residents from the Malibu area plan a protest at the EPA Hazardous Waste transfer station site … at the eastern gateway to Malibu.  […]

Outrage is growing from some – but not all – people in Malibu, over a federal government hazmat waste transfer station temporarily set up at the eastern gateway to Malibu. The U-S E-P-A is using the old Topanga Ranch Motel site … at the eastern end of Malibu … to transfer and consolidate loads of […]

As of last night … the Palisades Fire was 99 percent contained. It may be fully out by Friday. Counselors Onboard Malibu School Buses Thru Fire Zones Counselors will be riding on the P C H school busses this morning. … the school busses bringing kids through the fire zone on Pacific Coast Highway starting […]

=.  A fourth Malibu resident has died from the Palisades Fire. =.  Significant changes to the roadblocks on PCH.  Residents will need a pass. =.  Malibu City Hall will verify and hand them out .. and LAPD will supposedly honor them at their roadblock near Chatauqua. =.  Contractors will need passes from the Lost Hills […]

For 4 hours and 27 minutes on Saturday … Malibu residents let it out.  90 seconds per person.   Impossible to get to all the comments here.   Anger.   Questions.  Thanks. But loud … blistering criticism, against the Mountain Resource Conservation Authority .. the MRCA … drew the loudest applause. MRCA did not lock the gates […]

=. Power restored in Malibu just before noon … after 18 hours of intentional blackout.   =. SCE crews needed all morning to inspect and repair the lines to restore power this morning. =. The four Malibu schools are in session today … but the new germinator at Malibu High failed to kick in. =. […]

HEADLINES: =. Malibu parents are furious at 9 days of cancelled classes. =. Why no generators in Malibu, parents demand of Santa Monica school board. =. Malibu will get a mild, hit-and-miss Santa Ana wind today and tomorrow.  =. Winds are blowing up to 41 mph this morning at the higher mountains above Malibu. =. […]

For the past week… KBUU news has been asking Caltrans officials what their plan is to repair Pacific Coast Highway. Numerous retaining walls… rock retention walls… erosion prevention walls… cracked or burned. Hundreds of vertical faces have lost their protective vegetation. They were visible burning on the live TV news pictures.  Thick wooden timbers designed […]

Today’s Pali Fire Status: 52 percent contained as of last night. No new fire growth. 23,713 acres unchanged for 5 days. 5,677 fire personnel assigned. Although western Malibu and the Pacific Palisades fire zone remains evacuated … some 12,501 structures haver been repopulated in the local area. That’s 32,000 residents allowed back in, including the […]