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=    Another motorcycle crash … another helicopter out … near Zuma Beach. =    Realtors are giving away pizza to get a big crowd at the Planning Commission. =    The city plans to tighten film shooting permit rules … after the Yves Saint Laurent debacle. =    And two third of a billion […]

The great Paradise Cove fashion show debacle is still reverberating at Malibu City Hall. You might recall that the fashion house Yves Saint Laurent staged a huge party at Paradise Cove disguised under a movie filming permit. Yves St. Laurent had tried to get a party permit for the spring fashion show … but that […]

The great Malibu Mansion debate is on.  Local realtors and construction advocates on one side.  Slow growth and anti-mansionization forces on the other.   In the middle … those Malibu residents sitting in smaller houses … who may be counting on cashing out for maximum sales value. That’s the stage set for Monday night’s planning […]

Southern California Edison is spending as much as $680 million this year for fire mitigation projects … and will earn a 10 percent profit on those expenses. And a study for Calmatters … a statewide journalism venture … says there is no measurement system in place to measure if that money is being spent wisely. […]

=  A truck fire forces the closure of Kanan Tunnel 2 … heading towards Malibu. =  Malibu beaches take a major hit in the latest water quality report card. =  A cougar is tranquilized at Will Rogers beach =  Endangered species protection for cougars may put the brakes on development in the Santa Monica Mountains. […]

If there is any doubt that Malibu was in the middle of the largest urban national Park in the United States … we have three wild animal stories for you this morning. First … pair of golden eagle chicks, a fully protected species in the state of California, have been found in a nest in […]

The pristine quality of Malibu’s beaches have taken an enormous hit due to the Woolsey fire. Heal The Bay’s annual beach report card was released yesterday. Down the Malibu coast … from Leo Carrillo Beach as far as Big Rock … beach after beach has dropped from A or A plus to F … fail. […]

= A truck fire forces the closure of Kanan Tunnel 2 … heading towards Malibu. = Malibu beaches take a major hit in the latest water quality report card. = A cougar is tranquilized at Will Rogers beach = Endangered specie protection for cougars may put the brakes on development in the Santa Mona Mountains.  […]

More microquakes last night just off Thornhill Broome Beach: Magnitude 2.0 quake at 12:26 a.m., 2.1 at 12:46 a.m., and a 2.2 at 4:05 a.m.  This is KBUU News – Day 228 – the Tuesday Headlines: =   Overflowing garbage bins and goopy trash … businesses are going to get fines. =   City will […]

Some seven months after the Woolsey Fire destroyed much of western malibu … many Malibu residents have noticed that diesel-powered motors are still generating electricity across the burn area. At least a half dozen trailers are still chugging away … loud … emitting smoke … 24 hours a day. The trailers are connected to cell […]