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Why don’t the local governments support citizens who fight fires? And why doesn’t the local Bureaucracy use modern tools to help people fight crime int heir neighborhoods? Those important questions were raised … again … last night by Malibu residents. Not the first time … we heard similar complaints as far back and 25years ago. […]

Today is Thursday … and this is Malibu’s Only Local Daily News. = Undercover cops under the houses in western Malibu … = Bars and nightclubs are closed in L-A .. so the parties moved to the beach. = Plans for the largest public building in Malibu will be revealed tonight. = Why doesn’t the […]

L A County Sheriff Alex Villanueva is now the subject of a criminal investigation … opened by the LA County District Attorney … for filing a false police report. The D-A says it is reviewing allegations that Villanueva falsely reported a crime … This gets a bit confusing … but what basically happened is the […]

The Malibu Beach Inn has been ranked as the Number One Hotel in Southern California. The award comes from Condé Nast Traveler … in its annual Readers’ Choice Awards. Malibu Beach Inn is a 47-room boutique hotel offering breathtaking oceanic panoramas, refined design, and luxury experiences inspired by Malibu’s effortless ambiance. So says the press release. […]

Malibu has a new planning director. Or at least .. an acting  planning director. Richard Mollica has been appointed but her city manager … Reva Feldman. He will replace Bonnie Blue … who is leaving California for family reasons. Mollica has been at the City Hall for more than a a decade … and was […]

The chairman of the city Planning Commission tried hard last night to block a Malibu couple from continuing to run their business in the Civic Center. The business is a modular home … set up as a demonstration for Malibu fire victims to see what temporary housing can look like. The business owner … Lauren […]

Bank of America has been on Point Dume for 60 years. But the bank is pulling out. In a letter sent to customers yesterday … B of A says it will keep its branch at the Civic Center open. The point Dume branch has been closed. … supposedly temporarily … since the COVID lockdown began […]

CORRECTED AT 8:27AM WEDNESDAY – The agency in Santa Monica is the St. Joseph Center, not the St. Thomas Center, as first reported.  A person who has been in attendance at a line of free food for poor people … on Old Malibu Road in the Civic Center area … has tested positive for COVID-19. […]

L A County sheriff Alex Villanueva is running a sheriff’s department where some deputies  are members of a gang … the Banditos … who are hidden by a code of silence. About one-third of the Banditos work at the East L.A. station and control it “like inmates running a prison yard.” And the sheriff if […]

= No secret in Malibu … but the coroner releases the name of the man killed on PCH. = It was Michael Bennet … 58. No arrest has been made yet. = A major bank says sayonara to Point Dume after 60 years. = The planning commission chair wants a business that helps fire victims […]