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Two cities in Orange County are modifying their COVID rules … and reopening beaches in a veer limited way. Laguna Beach and San Clemente had a firm closure …. 24/7 on their beaches as a result of the public health emergency. Laguna Beach and San Clemente will reopen beaches 6 to 10  every morning … […]

With KBUU All News all morning. And NPR All Things Considered all afternoon. This is F-M 99.1 … KBUU News … for Wednesday = Two small Orange County cities are opening their beaches from 6 to 10 in the morning. = But two big ones … Newport and Huntington .. are sticking with their 24/7 […]

Converting an office building in midtown Malibu … into a luxury hotel … might happen. But it will cost a developer a lot more than the 400 thousand dollars he is offering. By a 5 to nothing vote last night …, the city council approved entering into negotiations with developer Norm Haynie. He;’s the guy […]

CHP officers report writing dozens of tickets last weekend on Kanan-Dume Road … as they. Exotic car drivers and motorcyclists from across Southern California … taking advantage of stay at home orders to turn local roads into race tracks. CHP Sergeant Dave Kajiwara tells KBUU chases are frequent. One on Sunday led to a mtorocycle […]

The coronavirus is surging in Orange County. Up more than 500 from a week ago. And the curve there may go up even sharper … as thousands of people went to the beach. That is a big deal to those of us 50 miles north in Malibu … wondering when the gates will open to […]

With KBUU all news all morning. And NPR All Things Considered all afternoon. This is F-M 99.1 … KBUU News These are the Tuesday Headlines: = The governor may send in the CHP to thin crowds at Orange County beaches. = Newsom warns reopened beaches were too crowded … he wants access tightened. = Death […]

A thick weekend fog bank may have done more to reduce crowds in Malibu last weekend … than did the heavy sheriff’s presence. At the very few beaches that were open in Southern California … reports were that moderately heavy crowds performed pretty well … in terms of social distancing. But Friday  … overcrowding was […]

A proposal to convert an office building and an abandoned gas station at Billionaire’s Beach … into a ritzy hotel … has been in the works at City Hall for 3-1/2 years. Developer Norm Haynie has been doing the preperatory work … aimed at converting the abandoned Shell gas station and the 30-year-old office complex. […]

California’s has nearly 500 cities. They say they will collectively lose $6.7 billion over the next two years because of the coronavirus pandemic. Not Malibu. Malibu’s rich property valuations and continued strong property tax collections means the COVID-19 virus will not hurt the city very badly. In fact … the city manager projects a deficit […]

With KBUU All News all morning. And NPR All Things Considered all afternoon. This is F-M 99.1 … KBUU News The Monday Headlines: = Thick fog reduces the pressure on Malibu beaches. = But some residents complain that outsiders were on sand .. while locals were ordered off. = Public health officials say … the […]