After the Woolsey Fire: Community Resources

A Malibu resident is gathering emergency medical supplies to ship to China. The potential public health threat posed by COVID-19 is high, both globally and to the United States. Jamie Ottillie is putting together care packages of environmental suits and N-95 masks to send to China for use by medical personnel treating those affected by […]

The Los Angeles Sheriff’s office has infuriated the city of Malibu once again. Three days after meeting with the mayor and the city managers of Malibu and four other West LA County cities … the sheriff has yanked back the agreement on selecting a new commander at the Malibu-Lost Hills SheriffStation. The five cities have […]

= Power down for 96 houses in the Malibu Bowl area. = Hassle free voting continues in Malibu … deadline 8 p-m tomorrow. = Reva Feldman gets told by the sheriff … no … = The city manager is removed from the panel picking the next police chief for the city of Malibu. = Malibu […]

[Note to listeners and readers: this item was broadcast Wednesday, and posted Thursday.  There are no KBUU newscasts scheduled for Thursday and Friday, as we have some maintenance tasks at the station.] Malibu’s mayor and city manager met with County Sheriff Alex Villanueva and his command staff on Monday … an effort to salvage relations […]

=  Malibu should explore setting up a separate police department … one city councilman says. =  Four other west L-A county cities are being asked this morning  how they feel about the issue. =  160 tickets and a drag race with a drunk driver.  That’s the PCH-CHP tally from last weekend. =  Good hedges make […]

Awwwwkwaaaard. Last night … it more than a bit awkward. Former city planning commissioner Kraig Hill appeared twice at the city council meeting’s microphones last night … to complain about being let go as a planning commissioner by city council member Mikke Pierson. Hill directed addressed Pierson to complain that he was blindsided. NEWSCART 75445 […]

No firm decisions yet … but Malibu is moving along down the path towards carving the city up into five voting districts. The city council last night directed city attorney Christi Hogin to draw up various maps … splitting the city. This actions comes in response to a letter from a law firm … which […]

The California Highway Patrol issued 160 traffic citations and arrested two drivers last weekend in Malibu. Those two drivers were conducting a speed race on PCH … and one of them was found to be a drunk driver. CHP Sgt Dave Kashihara tells KBUU News that the CHP and county sheriff’s department are working closely […]

Malibu should explore setting up a joint police department with other cities in western L A County. That’s the opinion of one city council member …. voiced last night at the city council meeting. It comes the day before Malibu and four nearby cities will meet to discuss what to do about the fourth major […]

=  Westbound 10 was closed at the Santa Monica tunnel … where a stupid fire hydrant was hit AGAIN. =  Malibu may see coronavirus quarantine passengers bused thru to Point Mugu. =  Neighbors ask how the sheriff’s search teams could miss a body under a house. =  The C H P responds in a big […]