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A new water tank to serve 300 houses and dozens of fire hydrants in the Malibu Park neighborhood was approved by the Malibu Planning Commission last night. The commission brushed back objections from a handful of neighbors … that the tank was too big and blocks ocean views. The new tank is essentially the same […]

With KBUU All News all morning. And NPR All Things Considered all afternoon. This is F-M 99.1 … KBUU News Day 557 – the Tuesday Headlines: = A stolen truck a police chase and a crash on PCH last night = Weekend beach chaos … the sheriff’s department left Malibu without enough deputies … say […]

Overcrowded beaches …  illegal parking … and people defiantly not wearing masks. That was the Malibu oceanfront over the weekend. No official comment yet from the city … but social media were burning with outrage Sunday. The county reopened the beaches … but it also ordered people to wear masks except when in the water, […]

The Malibu Planning Commission will consider a request by County Waterworks District 29 to replace an aging water tank on Busch Drive. The existing tank was built in 1947 out of concrete … it is patched an cracked And county engineers say it is long past the end of the expected lifetime. Proposals for an […]

Unlike public universities in California … Pepperdine University says it is going to hold classes this fall … in Malibu. The school announced Friday it will use virus testing and treating and contact tracing … physical distancing practices and intensive and frequent disinfecting of campus communal spaces. Cameras and screens will be installed … so […]

A second Malibu resident has died of COVID-19 … the disease ravaging the world. Pepperdine University law professor James McGoldrick … age 76 … who taught at the University for 50 years. The school announced his death over the weekend. McGoldrick graduated form Pepperdine’s Vermont Avenue campus in 1966 … and after law school in […]

With KBUU All News all morning. And NPR All Things Considered all afternoon. This is F-M 99.1 … KBUU News These are the Monday Headlines: = Rain … falling this morning … enjoy it …. last rain til this fall. = Overcrowded beaches … few wearing masks .. illegal parking … last weekend was a […]

Fire broke out today at a controversial manor constructed over the past few years in eastern Malibu, but the structure was saved. The fire was reported at 1:41 at the large house, which has a prominent set of columns, set into the hillside at 22435 W. Pacific Coast Hwy. Arriving units found smoke rising from […]

An armed robbery was reported at the Union 76 station on PCH at Latigo Canyon Rd at about 12:30 p.m. Friday. The suspect vehicle was spotted a few minutes later on Kanan Dume Road, and a “felony stop” was conducted at Kanan-Dume at Zuma Mesa Drive, according to LA County sheriff’s deputies. A felony stop […]

Fire season is right around the corner … and with it the renewed likelihood of intentional power outages as Southern California Edison tries to reduce the chance that its lines will trigger another destructive fire. Some Malibu leaders have bene trying to find away to allow Malibu to break off from the Edison system … […]