After the Woolsey Fire: Community Resources

About 50 people were marooned on Latigo Canyon Road yesterday … when a large bus got stuck on the hairpin turns about 2 miles south of Kanan Dume Road. The California Highway Patrol reported that a Greyhound-style bus was on the winding road … the middle of it stuck hard on a raised shoulder. A […]

How would you like a half million dollar sewer bill? That’s the amount that Malibu Colony Plaza’s owner will pay the City of Malibu next year … to treat sewage from the Ralphs Shopping Center. The bill will go to Stan Kroenke … the billionaire owner of the shopping center and the L-A Rams. The […]

The City of Malibu is about to spend $120,000 to figure out what to do with poor Legacy Park. Or rather … the dying trees and bushes there The original native planting plan included over 700 trees and shrubs as well as thousands of smaller plants .… most of those have died. Replaced by invasive […]

We’re still waiting to hear why … from the Southern California Edison company … why it’s okay to put a wooden power pole that has split into two halves in the ground to support heavy power equipment. The City of Malibu has asked the power company to provide assurances that the pole meets legal standards. […]

Three years after Metro said it would eventually stop running buses out to Malibu … the agency is now planning to reimagine its bus system. Whatever that means. Metro is asking Malibu residents to take a “NextGen Bus Study Survey.” The survey is online … the city says the idea is to design a new […]

A new power pole on Morning View Drive… with a crack right up the middle of it. Malibu High’s 54 million dollar new construction contract up for a vote tonight. Scooters may replace on-street car  parking spaces in Santa Monica. And Malibu may be seeing summer fires … because we are seeing 50 percent less […]

A new study from the University of California Santa Barbara says the Los Angeles area is getting less clouds because of an urban heat island. Researchers used cloud measurements taken every fifteen minutes from airports throughout Southern California. They found statistically significant decreases in cloud cover …  decreases of 46 percent at the Santa Monica Airport […]

In news from down the coast … Electric scooter enthusiasts showed up in numbers at the Tuesday night Santa Monica City Council meeting … And the city approved a watered-down set of proposed regulations on the scooters … according to the Santa Monica daily press newspaper. One company alone … Bird … has scattered 1500 […]

Malibu High School’s new 54 million dollar reconstruction contract goes before the Santa Monica-Malibu school board tonight … in Santa Monica. McCarthy Building Companies is ready to start major construction at the front of the school as soon as the ink is dry. A new two-story classroom complex at the eastern end of the school […]