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Here we go again. California State Parks and another state agency are planning to dig out Topanga Lagoon … and recreate a critically-important coastal fish nursery. A meeting is planned in three weeks to describe the project … listen to suggested design elements … and complete necessary environmental documentation. All this happened 10 years ago […]

The City of Malibu has made a big mistake … and is underestimating the effect of global ocean rise on the beaches … and beachfront development. That’s the conclusion of the California Coastal Commission staff … which is recommending that the state reject the proposed reconstruction of a house on the sand …. at Trancas […]

= The city of Malibu is going to get slapped by the Coastal Commission … again. = This time … it’s for drastically underestimating the effect of ocean level rise on beach access at Trancas. = A 12 point 7 percent increase in major crime in Malibu last year. = The former top cop for […]

=  61 mile per hour winds blast Paradise Cove. =  About 80 homes lose their power to tree branches in the lines. =  And over on Broad Beach … 88 houses had a long cold night due to an intentional power outage. =   A head-on crash on PCH traps one person in the wreckage. […]

Power outages … intentional and accidental … in the news this morning. Peak winds of 61 miles per hour at Paradise Cove have caused at least two tree-related power outages. SCE says 41 customers out at one location, 23 customers at the second. Power lines to be repaired and service restored by noon, is the […]

Malibu’s Planning Commissioners have found out the hard way it does not pay to make decisions in the middle of the night. At Monday night’s Planning Commission meeting … members acknowledged that they voted on a big project in a way that they understood … but no one else. It was a very late night […]

= 61 mile per hour winds blast Paradise Cove. = About 80 homes lose their power to tree branches in the lines. = And over on Broad Beach … 88 houses had a long cold night due to an intentional power outage. = A head-on crash on PCH traps one person in the wreckage. = […]

= 64 mile an hour winds … and a 98 miles an hour Porsche on Kanan Dume. = A sewage cleanup in Malibu … but the RVs may have just moved up the coast. = The local public school district is broke. = A dirty power plant up the coast may keep chugging away for […]

= 64 mile per hour winds up above Malibu. = 98 miles an hour on Kanan Dume. = A sewage cleanup in Malibu … but the RVs may have just moved up the coast. = The local public school district is broke. = A dirty power plant up the coast may keep chugging away for […]

=   The Coastal Commission is upset that the ghost bus to Point Dume has disappeared. =   Staff wants to know why the City of Malibu is violating a 20 year old court order over parking. =   The city’s evacuation plan for Pacific Coast Highway will never work … one official says. = […]