After the Woolsey Fire: Community Resources

There will be Friday night concerts at Trancas County Market this summer.  But only for 15 Friday nights this year … Last night … the Planning Commission clamped severe restrictions … agreed to in advance by the owners of the shopping center.  Homeowners groups .. including the Malibu West homeowners association … pressured the want […]

Parks Advocates, Open Space Advocates Will Both Speak Tonight At Land Use Forum – 20.7% Of Malibu Is Under Age 20 Malibu has five vacant lots … owned by the city … at least two of them purchased for the stated purpose of building parks with playing fields. And now … after years and years […]

Coroner Names Crash Victim As Malibu Man A 60-year-old man … an artist from Malibu… is the man who died on Pacific Coast Highway two days ago. The LA county corners office says Derek Schimming is the person who was killed when his car crashed on PCH near Paradise Cove Rd., Tuesday afternoon. No information […]

Malibu Artist, 60, Dies In PCH Crash; Sheriff’s Detective Suspects Natural Causes It was likely a heart attack or some other medical emergency that killed a 60-year old Malibu man … as he crashed his car into oncoming traffic on Pacific Coast Highway at Paradise Cove yesterday afternoon. Witnesses pulled the man out of his […]

Council Says 4-Story Hotel Wedged Up Against Hill Is Too Big A proposed hotel across the street from the Malibu Pier got shot down 4 to 1 at the Malibu City Council last night. The four story high project was wedged onto a vacant lot … zoned for two stories high … and carved into […]

The Malibu city council tonight will vote on a proposal to build a four-story hotel in an area zoned for a 2-story motel … next to the Malibu Inn nightclub. There request is for variances … exemptions from local zoning laws … to allow the developer to carve into the cliff across from the Malibu […]

Frustrated motorists will face at least one month of delays on PCH heading towards Malibu, while the state designs and then constructs a restriping project around a mudslide that started 65 years ago. In a news release issued Tuesday morning, Caltrans today confirmed plans for a slight detour around the “beach squeeze” at the Tramonto […]

Some Deputies From Malibu At UCLA Booking Protestors, But Patrols Here Continue The eyes of the nation are on UCLA this morning. Rubber bullets were fired at pro-Gaza protestors this morning … 24 hours after a pro-Israel mob was allowed to attack the illegal protest camp with fireworks and metal sticks. Sheriff’s deputies from the […]

UCLA Police Watch At Pro-Israel Demonstrators Attack Pro-Gaza Campers, Outside Police Finally Break Things Up A total breakdown of police last night … at UCLA. Pro-Israeli protestors moved in on the pro-Gaza encampment at about 11 last night. People inside the camp were attacked.  ABC-7 helicopter reporter Chris Christie was overhead: 70270 ABC7 CHRIS CHRISTIE […]

Caltrans Has New Estimated Size Of Topanga Landslide: 90,000 Cubic Yards (7,500 Truckloads) A new estimate from Caltrans: The landslide on Topanga Canyon Boulevard is now estimated at 90,000 cubic yards. That is 75 hundred dump truck loads. And the state does not have any p[lace identified yet to receive 75 hundred dump trucks full […]