After the Woolsey Fire: Community Resources

National Park Service officials announced yesterday that a mountain lion  was shot to death in the Santa Monica Mountains by a ranch owner. The male mountain lion, believed to be 4 or 5 years old, was dubbed P-56 after it was caught and outfitted with a GPS tracking collar in April 2017. The killing was […]

= 71 mile per hour winds hit Paradise Cove this morning. = The cougar that was killed had been successfully driven away for 8 months … before he returned one last time. = The Civic Center Way project will go ahead … minus a bike lane … but with some changes. = But not so […]

=  55 mile an hour winds hit Paradise Cove overnight …. more on tap tonight. =  The city council hears an appeal from the city staff on a city planning commission ruling tonight. = Malibus efforts to separate the school district from Santa Monica … trudge along. =  Ventura County puts a new Firehawk helicopter […]

Efforts to split Malibu out of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District continue. A political effort that began about 10 years ago is seeking to break out Malibu … which through an accident of history and geography is connected to the Santa Monica district even though separated by a chunk of Los Angeles … Santa […]

This is KBUU News – The Monday Headlines = 55 mile an hour winds hit Paradise Cove overnight …. more on tap tonight. = The city council hears an appeal from the city staff on a city planning commission ruling tonight. = Malibus efforts to separate the school district from Santa Moncia … trudge along. […]

=   8 foot high tides coming Saturday and Sunday mornings. =   Malibu may retreat … from its plan to put up a vehicle gate at the Ponty Dume Nature Reserve. =   But whether this prevent the Coastal Commission from ordering construction of a 22 space parking lot up there … an open […]

Malibu may retreat from efforts to build a vehicle gate at the Point Dume parking lot … But it my be too late to avoid a big fight with the California Coastal Commission. The city manager is recommending that the city withdraw its plans to add the vehicle gate at the Point Dume Nature Reserve […]

Some very high high tides are coming this weekend. The full moon … plus the relative positions of the earth and moon at this time of year … will make these king tides. King tides occur about twice a year when the sun and moon align to enhance the gravitational pull that produces normal, daily […]

=   The Coastal Commission staff says Malibu is underestimating the effect of ocean level rise on beach access at Trancas. =   And they say Malibu keeps people off public beaches to keep non-whites out. =   A 12 point 7 percent increase in major crime in Malibu last year. =   Tye former […]

The California Coastal Commission is going after the Tivoli Cove condos over coastal access at Latigo Beach … and is playing the race card. At this month’s meeting in Long Beach …. the commission will consider a plea bargain with the condo owners at Tivoli Cove. That development has been in violation of public access […]