After the Woolsey Fire: Community Resources

KBUU Newswire Friday =. The Malibu Triathlon loses its permit …endangered fish on the racecourse is a big problem. =. Malibu’s planning commission who hear an appeal Monday … for a truncated bike race in the parking only. =. The arrival of an endangered fish at the Zuma underpass spells doom for its use as […]

=.  Malibu will ban granny flats … ADUs … in neighborhoods without two streets out to the highway. =.  An opponent says that’s illegal … the city is denying residents ADUs that are allowed by state law.  =.  A chain store takes over a Malibu shopping center…. Which just so happens to be owned by […]

Car Crash Into Lilly’s Patio Means No Burritos Today A driver lost control of her car behind Point Dume Village today, and the vehicle took out four support pillars in front of Lilly’s Cafe, putting a temporary end to burritos at the popular Point Dume eatery. The crash was at 9:45 a.m. today (Tuesday), and […]

Major Crime Down 18.6% From Last Year, Deputies Report The major crime rate continues to drop in Malibu, The latest crime statistics from the LA County sheriff’s office show an 18.6 percent decrease in major crimes for the first half of 2023 … as compared to the first half of the year before. Keep in […]

Homeless Count Up 45% On Westside, Including Malibu, But 2021 Undercount May Be To Blame The number of homeless persons in the western LA area has gone up 45 percent … in 2022 … and is still going up. That is the dismal result of the latest homelessness census ,… released yesterday. That may be […]

City Council Swallows Bitter Pill, Approves Haynie Hotel and Its MRCA Campground Funding A bitter pill was swallowed by the Malibu city council Monday night. It approved the conversion of an office building near Billionaire’s Beach into a luxury hotel … The deal includes 800 thousand dollars to subsidize camping in Malibu .. it was […]

Editor’s note: KBUU Radio has a major conflict of interest covering this story, which we acknowledge in advance.    See below. Malibu’s City Council last night said they want the Broad Beach sand replenishment project to go up for another vote … by the landowners in the Broad Beach Geological Hazard Abatement District. And major […]

Any hopes of rebuilding Malibu High School on any sort of prompt timetable have been dashed by bureaucrats at the California Coastal Commission. A one year delay is being requested by the staff at the Coastal Commission … a request by its staff to put off the commission’s action on the Malibu High rezoning for […]

Two years later and untold millions over budget … Caltrans contractors on Thursday poured the final concrete deck surfacing for the first half of the Trancas Creek bridge. This paved the way for traffic to be shifted over in a few weeks onto the new deck.  That will allow the 95-year-old southern half of the bridge […]

City, SMMUSD Say Divorce Proceeding Slowly But Surely, But Are Not Fighting In Front Of Kids Santa Monica school and Malibu city officials have issued a joint statement that reaffirms that steady progress is being made on the school district divorce. Their joint statement was issued yesterday. In it … the school district and the […]