After the Woolsey Fire: Community Resources

Malibu’s city council last night approved creation of a new beach accessway … along P C H. The Mountain Resources and Conservation Authority … the M R C A … wants to build a stairway  and gate at a lot it owns  … just west of the Moonshadows parking lot. The city council had already […]

If you were listing to KBUU Radio yesterday morning … you may have heard us report about the tortoise jam on Keenan Dume Road. Traffic was briefly held up while the CHP and county sheriffs deputies dealt with a giant Desert Tortoise … lumbering across the roadway up at Rocky Oaks. The tortoise was briefly […]

This is KBUU News.  The headlines: The Godmother of Malibu passes away. High surf and hot weather. Speed limits go up and up. More efforts to save P C H get underway … in eastern Malibu .. today. Bird scooters … a crackdown in Santa Monica … but they’re heading our way. This is Malibu’s […]

The city council meets tonight. They will vote on a 180 Thousand dollar contract with The People Concern for continued homeless outreach efforts. That’s twice as much as last year … but concrete progress has been made … according to a new report from the city manager. 30 homeless people who used to live in […]

The Los Angeles Times has a big story over the weekend on how the California legislature forces speed limits to go up and up and up. Under California law … the speed limit on a major street has to be set according to the average speed of traffic … if police are to be allowed […]

The death of Los Angeles Times food critic Jonathan Gold’s over the weekend leaves a huge hole in Southland journalism … and the food scene. And Malibu has its own loss. We lead this morning with an obituary of our own. Dee Rivellino has died. The Godmother of Malibu … with a recipe for tomato […]

A summer squall douses Malibu … beaches closed … thunderbolts of lightning very very frightening. The reward for information in the Malibu Canyon murder is increased again. Caltrans needs to move some Earth above PCH. A scooter clobbers a kid in Santa Monica … prompting a petition drive to ban Birds. This is Malibu’s only […]

Well…. that was interesting. A little thunderstorm cell crept west down the Santa Monica Mountains at midday yesterday. That was just enough to make the streets wet in most of Malibu. A few places got a real downpour … but most rain gauges registered only a trace. Beaches were closed as lightning and thunder made […]

A petition drive has been started in Santa Monica … where a mother is furious that a scooter rider smashed into her son and badly injured him. The petition calls for Santa Monica to ban motorized scooters from the beach path. And to crackdown on scooters ridden  on sidewalks. Although the Santa Monica city code […]

The reward for information leading to an arrest in the Malibu Creek murder has jumped again … to 30 thousand dollars. Tristan Beaudette … the father of two who was murdered in the canyon last month … had work ed at Allergan … as a research chemist. Allergan has now matched the $10,000 reward offered […]