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Getting back to the Malibu budget … eight million dollars in city money was spent last winter on the Woolsey Fire and the subsequent flooding. But 6 million of that is supposed to be reimbursed by FEMA .. the Federal Emergency Management Agency. That money is now held up in Congress … along with flood […]

Two Malibu city council members say they were at that meeting of the California Contract Cities Association Convention that features a bloody brawl … two weekends ago … But they were asleep in their hotel rooms at 12:30 in the morning when the fight broke out. The embarrassing sideshow put a spotlight on the conventions […]

The pipeline is opening up for reconstruction of the 450 or so houses that were burned in the fire 201 days ago. The Malibu Planning Department has issued the second building permit for actual construction of a replacement house. It’s on Bluewater … on Point Dume. The first building permit went to a home on […]

A 31 million city budget was approved by the Malibu City Council last night. It includes a 2 point 6 million item … to enable the city to waive building review fees for homes that were burned down in the Woolsey Fire. City council members say its important for the city to everything it can […]

59º and sunny at 7:17 this morning in Trancas. A busy news night …. This is KBUU News for Day 201 – the Wednesday Headlines: = The city adopts a 31 million dollar budget full of cuts. = But residents who lost their homes will probably get 100 percent of their city inspection fees waived. […]

This is KBUU News – Day 200 – the Tuesday Headlines: =  The votes are in … parents and teachers have picked Malibu Elementary School for the point. =  11 Encinal Canyon fire victims get some good news from the fire department. =  But 7 homeowners are told they cannot rebuild until the county water […]

Talks have apparently broken down between Malibu homeowners and the government agencies that want camping in local canyons. Local resident Barry Haldeman says county supervisor Sheila Kuehl has decided to embrace a change in the Coastal Commission’s Local Coastal Plan for the Santa Monica Mountains above Malibu. Residents in Ramirez Canyon have already won a […]

The controversial plan to sell two acres of city land at the civic center to the fire department … for use as a new central Malibu fire station … will go before an unusual agglomeration of city commissions tomorrow. The proposal is to chop off the lower two acres of the Chili Cook Off Site […]

L A County’s fire chief has signed off on plans to allow 18 fire destroyed homes in western Malibu to be rebuilt … even though their water supply is currently insufficient to fight fires. But 7 of those homeowners will have to wait until new pipe construction begins … the county fire chief says their […]

The people have spoken … a new name has been selected for the school on Point Dume. And the new name is …. Malibu Elementary School. The name was selected by teachers and parents at the school … as well as from Juan Cabrillo School … which is being merged into the Malibu school on […]