After the Woolsey Fire: Community Resources

RESEARCH SCIENTIST FROM IRVINE IDENTIFIED AS CANYON MURDER VICTIM A public meeting next Wednesday on that campground planned for above Malibu. We now know who is moving in to the former movie theater … and it’s a familiar name. It may be the end of the road for a traffic light on P C H […]

Malibu’s city council meeting on Monday may be the end of the request by Malibu Beach Inn to expand its operations to straddle Pacific Coast Highway. The hotel is planning to move its pakring lot to the inland side of Pacifc Coast Highway … and install a swimming pool where its currently cars are parked. […]

The MRCA now says it will have a public meeting … next Wednesday … about its plan for a large campground just above Malibu. 6 o’clock Wednesday … in Los Angeles. Turns out to the meeting will mean nothing …. legally. It’s just a scoping meeting … where some lower level bureaucrat will be there […]

6:57 am SUNDAY UPDATE: The man who was shot and killed inside his tent — with his young daughters next to him at Malibu Creek State Park — has been identified as a research chemist from Irvine. Tristan Beaudette was killed at about 4:40 a.m. Friday, and homicide detetcives Saturday said they had no leads, […]

July Ninth will be a battle royale between the two sides … in the fight over vacation rentals in Malibu. The city is late to the table … joining other California coastal cities in regulating overnight rentals. For some … an intrusion of motel rooms and rowdy guests in their residential neighborhoods. For others … […]

The Malibu Times has discovered that the MRCA has quietly begun floating its plan for a large campground just above Malibu … for public comment. As quietly as possible … the Mountain Recreation Conversation Authority has opened public comment on its plans for the campgrounds in the mountains west of Pepperdine. It’s a scoping announcement […]

Southern California Edison invited the news media yesterday … to see a behind-the-scenes look at its new fire weather command post.  Somehow KBUU’s invitation got lost on the mail. The power company is gearing up plans to watch fire weather closely…. and shut off electricity to areas when winds make fire danger extreme. The utility […]

Edison unveils high tech plans to shut power off to Malibu during Santa Anas. Get ready for the battle royale over B and Bs … July Ninth at City Hall. Plans for the Malibu campground are revealed by the MRCA. And another drunk driving checkpoint is on tap. —— This is Malibu’s only local daily […]

Edison says its pole … the one with a big crack .. is safe. But they stop short of answering … it it legal? Rent control might return to Malibu. Malibu is causing a nationwide paper straw shortage. And a B and B scam gets a Santa Monica guy a criminal conviction. This is Malibu’s […]

In news from down the coast … a Santa Monica real estate agent has pleaded “no contest” to five misdemeanor counts in a vacation rental scam. The Santa Monica Lookout newspaper reports that the man unlawfully removed nine units from the city’s rental housing market and converted them into B and B listings Shabi Jafri […]