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Malibu’s two new city council members have rescheduled their first meeting of the city council’s Disaster Response and Recovery Ad Hoc Committee. The first meeting was rained out. The meeting will now be held tomorrow night …. Tuesday … at 6:30 at Malibu City Hall. This small working group is designed to listen to residents […]

California property owners are having a hard time renewing their fire insurance policies. The Wall Street Journal reports insurance companies are canceling some policies and refusing to sell new ones … or applying for rate increases … in fire risk areas. Large insurers have filed to raise home-insurance rates . in the past six months. […]

Cal Recycle crews have already substantially ripped down more than a dozen houses in the Point Dume and Malibu High School area. Fire debris removal under the California state-sponsored program began last week at 13 properties within city limits … plus three outside the city limits. Preliminary work … like knocking down chimneys and site […]

This is KBUU News – the headlines: =   A half inch of rain … but no mud … tomorrow morning. =   Malibu High’s softball and baseball trams win their first victories … the district promises to get mud off their fields. =    99 percent of the hazmat stuff has been removed form […]

LA County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl has also been getting an earful on bitter experiences caused by the county government during the Woolsey Fire. TV opictures of boats unloading emergency supplies … desperately needed as malibu residents battled flames with garden hoses ,,, have triggered massive criticism of the evacuation roadblocks. The city of Malibu has […]

State regulators are cracking down on trash in Malibu Creek … Malibu Lagoon … and the ocean. Revised regulations have been approved by the Regional Water Quality Control Board for the creek … which starts in Ventura County way north of the 101 and ends at Malibu’s Surfrider Beach. Current levels of trash in Malibu […]

A relatively weak storm system is going to arrive in Malibu early tomorrow morning. The National Weather Service says we can expect a 3 to 6 hour period of steady rain early in the morning … turning scattered showers by mid morning across Los Angeles County. We’ll get a brief period of south winds as […]

First it was a fire that destroyed their homes … then a loss of five weeks of school. Now … kids at Malibu High School are dealing with the loss of their home fields. The school’s athletics fields are drowning in mud …. ash and rocks … washing onto the grass and tennis courts. The […]

This is KBUU News – Day 91- The Headlines: =  Another black ice crash this morning on Kanan Dume at tunnel 2. =  Flood prediction maps are being finalized by city engineers … and they do not look good. =  New debris basins may be constructed above Cuthbert … but Malibu West is a worry. […]

Southern California Edison has unveiled details of its 582 million dollar plan to harden its overhead poles and wires … against causing fires. And the plan says Edison will study … but not commit to  … undergrounding some of its power lines as a preventative measure. The 150 page plan was unveiled yesterday … it […]