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A powerful regional parks agency is attacking Caltrans and Malibu … for drawing up plans to make PCH safer. MRCA .. the Mountain Resource and Conservation Authority .. is most unhappy that Caltrans is talking about banning parking at the dangerous highway locations that the MRCA has created.  In fact … MRCA director Joe Edmiston […]

Fire Containment Improves To 54%, But Malibu Cyn Rd Quickly Closed Again Malibu Canyon Road was opened to traffic by firefighters at 8 o’clock last night.   Two hours later … Malibu Canyon Road was closed to traffic by road crews.  LA County Department of Public work crews say the cliffs have unstable rocks. made […]

Fire lines have been cut around the Malibu Civic Center, and along Piuma Canyon Road, and at Carbon Canyon. Near Puerco Canyon, on the western front, fire lines have been cut on the eastern side of Corral Canyon. Weather forecast: remnants of a very weak cold front will arrive tonight.  Sunday, some weak offshore Santa […]

Please note, this is a rough transcription, as our editor is not able to review this report before publication, due to the fire. Major Firefight At Corral Creek, As Flames Are Prevented From Spreading Towards Latigo Beach The latest Malibu fire is at 39 hundred 84 acres. Pacific Coast Highway is still closed at the […]

9 Millibar Santa Ana Starts This Afternoon, Should Peak Overnight With Winds Above 60 MPH Firefighters are being pre-positioned in the Malibu area mountains.  Topanga Canyon serves notice that their road thru the mountains will be closed – again – to non residents.  The National Weather Service predicts peak winds of 70 miles per hour […]

Car Over Cliff West of Malibu Prompts Chopper Search There was a late night helicopter rescue attempt last night on a cliff west of Malibu. It was for a possible person who had been in a car that went over a cliff two nights earlier … last Saturday night. No person was found in the […]

Horvath Rushes Funding To Malibu To Build PCH Traffic Circles At El Matador Beach And Encinal Canyon Rd Two temporary traffic circles will be placed on PCH in Western Malibu … a quick move to slow traffic. One will be at PCH at El Matador State Beach, and the other further west at PCH at […]

Malibu High On Track For August Move-In, As Plans Are Underway For Middle School And Pool The New Malibu High School bulldings might be opened at the start of next year’s school year in August. That’s the news from Santa Monica Malibu school district officials … delivered to a community bond oversight committee last night. […]

A lawsuit has been filed against two city council members … and the city … by a departed city hall planner. Former Malibu city employee Adrian Fernandez cites examples of alleged racial discrimination … and his lawyer says people in this all-white city use code words to discriminate against nonwhite people. They lawsuit also names […]

Santa Monica Digs In Its Heels Against Independent Malibu School District Malibu’s drive for an independent school district is still hanging without a vote from a key LA County Committee. Ot’s called LA-COE … the LA County office of Education. And last night …,the Santa Monica school board majority bared its fangs against Malibu. Although […]