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Two years later and untold millions over budget … Caltrans contractors on Thursday poured the final concrete deck surfacing for the first half of the Trancas Creek bridge. This paved the way for traffic to be shifted over in a few weeks onto the new deck.  That will allow the 95-year-old southern half of the bridge […]

City, SMMUSD Say Divorce Proceeding Slowly But Surely, But Are Not Fighting In Front Of Kids Santa Monica school and Malibu city officials have issued a joint statement that reaffirms that steady progress is being made on the school district divorce. Their joint statement was issued yesterday. In it … the school district and the […]

Santa Monica school and Malibu city officials today issued a joint statement that reaffirms what KBUU reported last week – steady progress is being made on the school district divorce. A Malibu assistant city attorney said Monday night that Santa Monica has made a major financial concession… and is no longer demanding a huge chunk […]

Extra cops will be on the streets of Malibu today. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will conduct a special traffic safety operation all day  until 8:30 ton night. Extra motorcycle and black and white vehicles will be looking for the most dangerous driver behaviors .. which are proven to put the safety of people […]

3 Missing After Pt Mugu Plane Crashes Next To San Clemente Island Three people were presumed dead yesterday after the regular U S Navy flight fromPoint Mugu to the secret Navy base at San Clemente island crashed into the ocean … 70 miles south of Malibu. The Learjet pilot issued a mayday on approach to […]

Man Describes Finding Brother In Law Soaked In Blood In Malibu Canyon, As Kids Sobbed The brother in law of the Malibu Canyon campground murder victim testified yesterday that he heard some pops and then his two little nieces crying … keeling next to their dad’s bloody body. Tristan Beaudette had been shot in the […]

Add 1 To PCH Death Toll: Carload Of Beachgoers Broadsided Saturday In Santa Monica The death toll on Pacific Coast Highway keeps ticking up. This time… It was a car full of tourists that was broadsided… T-boned …. As the driver tried to turn into the Santa Monica pier parking lot. The Saturday afternoon crash […]

Malibu’s city council has rejected the Coastal Commission’s plan to extort $800,000 from a Malibu hotel developer … to fund a campground off Kanan Dume Road. And although the hotel project is not dead yet … developer Norm Haynie can only hope that the Coastal Commission will walk back its demand that he gift the […]

Malibu Planning Commissioner Skylar Peak makes his living as an electrical contractor. And Peak .. who served 8 years on the city council … has been appointed to the Planning Commission while he continues to work as an electrician in Malibu. On social media … over the past 10 days … Peak was attacked for […]

KBUU NEWS EXTRA TUESDAY APRIL 25 The controversial Rindge Dam removal project is moving into its pre-construction, engineering, and design phase, inching the state and federal governments closer to an approximate $347 million project to restore the Malibu Creek ecosystem and the endangered steelhead salmon that breed in the creek. California State Parks on Monday […]