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This is KBUU News – Day 488 – the Early AM Wednesday Headlines = L A County health now has 17 COVID 19 cases … Ventura County has one. = Dolphin Awards and Malibu Film Society events … cancelled. = Pepperdine University moves to online classes. = Malibu’s school superintendent says this is N-O-T not […]

This is KBUU News – Day 487 – the Tuesday Headlines: =  A UCLA Med school professor has warnings of dozens … maybe hundreds of deaths in Malibu. =  That’s IF the Chinese medical data is accurate … and applicable to Malibu demographics.  = Rumors sweep Malibu … the County Health Department so far will […]

We start today’s newscast with an editorial note. The news is scary.  There are rumors. Here at KBUU … it is our job to separate rumor from news. You may have heard the rumors about a COVID-19 medical case in Malibu. We have heard them. We have reported them. Three nongovernment sources have told us […]

=  Coronavirus not yet causing any event cancellations in Malibu =  A big traffic sting against an outlaw car club fizzled on Saturday … when the car club got advance notice. =  The sheriff calls for an outside investigation into his own handling of the gruesome Kobe Bryant crash pictures. =  Malibu is going to […]

How will Malibu get sliced up into voting districts? On Friday … the city published four maps that show different ways that the city cna be divided. These go up for voter discussion … at public hearings this Thursday evening at City Hall … and Friday evening at Malibu High School. All four potential maps […]

One day after getting publicly roasted over the Kobe Bryant photos issue … L A County Sheriff Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva is calling for an independent review of his actions. Last Tuesday … the sheriff came in for criticism by Malibu Canyon residents over his ordering deputies to delete photos from their phones. […]

L A County sheriff’s deputies say they wrote 160 traffic tickets on Saturday … and the California Highway Patrol wrote dozens more … during another collaborated traffic enforcement effort. And Sunday … C H P officers were dealing with a large motorcycle rally in the local area. Numerous incidents of lawbreaking were happening spread across […]

“We’re past the point of containment.”  That’s the blunt assessment of Dr. Scott Gottlieb commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration during the first two years of President Trump’s administration. U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams says shifting to a mitigation phase means communities need to start thinking about whether it makes sense to cancel large gatherings, close schools […]

=  A major disagreement between the Shark Fund and the elementary school PTAs. =   Malibu-wide fundraising for the local schools breaks down. =   Santa Monica says they are subsidizing Malibu schools … and what the city of Malibu to pick up the ball. =   Voters slap the sheriff … with a 73 […]

With election returns still being counted … it appears that Los Angeles County voters have approved stronger civilian oversight on the controversial L A COunty sheriff. Measure R would allow the Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission to investigate misconduct using subpoenas. It appears to be headed for a big win … with more than 71% of […]