After the Woolsey Fire: Community Resources

=   The new sheriff says there will be no change in roadblock rules … during the next Malibu disaster. =  Alex Villanueva says those who stayed behind to fight the fire … should have left rather than try to get resupplied. =   Nobody committed any crime … when kids exchanged insults and threats […]

Los Angeles County sheriffs officials say they have reviewed the cellphone video of a school yard brawl at Malibu High School … and say that death threats shouted by a a teenaged boy do not rise to the level of a crime. The video has circulated widely on the internet. It shows a playground scuffle […]

In news from down the coast … today, the city of Encinitas will dedicate some giant piles of sand on Cardiff State Beach. According to Coast News … the Encintas beach restoration project includes engineered “living dunes” that have been five years in the making. Sand has been dredged from offshore … and placed atop […]

The same day that Malibu was hit by fire … the Northern California town of Paradise and Magalia were leveled by the Camp Fire. 85 were killed… some trapped by fallen power lines. Now … Pacific Gas & Electric Co. says it will put all of the residential and business power lines in Paradise and […]

L A County’s new county sheriff … Alex Villanueva … has defended the use of roadblocks around Malibu after the Woolsey Fire … and says policies about closing the area will not change. It was the sheriff’s first public comment on the controversial roadblocks …. which infuriated many Malibu residents who had stayed behind to […]

Rain likely Saturday … cold and windy until then. Lots of news this Thursday morning: = The new sheriff says there will be no change in roadblock rules … during the next Malibu disaster. = Alex Villanueva says those who stayed behind to fight the fire … should have left … rather than try to […]

=  Malibu High continues to grapple with that ugly fight … caught on video. =  The battle to save womens’ health rights … and preserve abortion … in Malibu. =  L A County sheriff Alex Villanueva will hold a public meeting in Malibu tonight. =  That will be one day after a watchdog agency accuses […]

A local political battle is also coming to Malibu … tonight. Los Angeles County sheriff Alex Villanueva is coming out to Malibu to address local constituents tonight at 6. The L-A sheriff’s office infuriated many in the Malibu area … with what was viewed as heavy-handed and arbitrary road closures during the Woolsey Fire. The […]

Across the nation yesterday … women and men stood on street corners to proclaim support for a woman’s right to choose what happens to her own body. In Malibu .. about 30 persons and several dogs were congregated at the city’s unofficial speakers corner … the busy intersection of Pacific Coast Highway at Webb Way. […]

Malibu High School students will be brought into an assembly today … as the school continues to deal with an ugly playground brawl that had ugly racist and class overtones. The school district’s Restorative Justice effort has been working behind the scenes since video of the incident surfaced more than a week ago. In the […]