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BROADCAST FRIDAY MORNING. POSTED FRIDAY EVENING. The Broad Beach sand replacement project has been ordered stopped by a county judge. But backers of trucking in the sand say they will not give up … and they have reminded homeowners that they still have to pay the special tax. More than 20 million dollars has already […]

= A judge says the Broad Beach sand replenishment project is dead. = But the special tax district’s lawyer says they will press ahead anyway. = Malibu will see a flood of red ink … if it bans overnight rentals .… = But residential neighborhood advocates say hooey … the financial report did not do […]

UPDATED 2:55pm WED with sheriff’s office comment. Sheriff’s deputies today said they have made an arrest regarding the Thursday incident involving a girl who reportedly had a “hit list” of targets at Malibu High School, but it is not clear who was arrested, or what the charge is. Sheriff’s Lt. Greg Minster said he could […]

=   Malibu may soon be paying more for sheriff’s patrols.  A lot more. =   L A supervisors are looking to cities like Malibu to stem the 63 million dollar budget blowout. . =  Malibu High parents meet with the sheriff’s department over the security scares last week. =   The City of LA […]

Malibu High School parents met with principals and there L A County sheriff yesterday morning. This as students and staff continue to grapple with two security incidents at the school last week. In the meeting … parents asked for more information than they had been getting. One parent told KBUU News outside that he felt […]

Malibu and other small cities that hire the L-A County Sheriff’s Department to be their city police force may soon start paying more for their contracts. A lot more. That’s one upshot from yesterday’s showdown between the L A County Board of Supervisors … and sheriff Alex Villanueva. The countywide sheriff’s budget is bleeding red […]

This is KBUU News – Day 327 – the Wednesday Headlines: = Malibu may soon be paying more for sheriff’s patrols. A lot more. = L A supervisors are looking to cities like Malibu to stem the 63 million dollar budget blowout. . = Malibu High parents meet with the sheriff’s department over the security […]

=    Malibu High meets with parents this morning at 9 over security worries. =    Overnight rentals of houses in Malibu … back on the table after three years. =   LA County’s sheriff overshoots his budget by 63 million dollars…. may get a hiring freeze. =    Cleanup of the nuke meltdown and […]

A gigantic underwater concrete structure that once transported electricity between three western states has to be removed from the ocean bed just off PCH next to Gladstone’s restaurant. The L A Department of Water and Power has unveiled plans for tearing out the underwater concrete structures … called cathodes … and to rip out undersea […]

More than a dozen buildings contaminated with rocket fuel and radioactive residue … 25 miles north of Malibu … will be demolished and the site clean up. That’s the latest decision from the U-S Department of Energy over the controversial Santa Susana Field Lab … the now abandoned federal research center that operated during the […]