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This is KBUU News – Day 125 – the Tuesday headlines: =  Cops say ‘no foul play’ in death on Corral Beach. =  Arsonist on PCH arrested after major road closure. =  Planned burn at Big Rock will go before city council. =  Homeless feeding resumes quietly on Morning View. =  A presidential candidate visits […]

The Woolsey Fire has drawn its second presidential candidate … Jay Inslee … the democratic governor of Washington state … toured the Woolsey fire wreckage over the hill … at the decimated Seminole Springs mobile home park … yesterday. Inslee is running a single issue campaign centered on Global warming. The presidential candidate looked at the […]

Today is day one twenty four after the fire. And the city says the first six burned-out houses have been cleared for rebuilding … by Cal Recycles. A total of 447 structures were destroyed within city limits. Of those … 276 property owners have opted in … to have the state Cal Recycles program remove […]

It’s been one year since the City of Malibu decided that the churches feeding the homeless should stop doing that … and that the feeding program should move to the courthouse complex next tp the library. That relocation has been put on hold because of the Woolsey Fire … and the need to install fire […]

The L A county fire department has scheduled  public presentation on its plan to clear brush in the local mountains with a prescribed burn. KBUU News reported last week that a 400 acre plus fire will be set to remove fuel in an area near Big Rock … in eastern Malibu. City manager Reva Feldman […]

This is KBUU News – on Day 124 after the fire – the Monday Headlines: =  More trees earmarked for chopping … more anger at Edison. =  A new fire plan for Malibu … whatever happened to the last two plans?? =  Homeless people at the Malibu library prompt a city response. =  Hard work […]

The Malibu Times Dolphin Awards banquet was Sunday … a unique Malibu event that one really needs to see to believe. Publishers Arnold York and Karen Portugal York have hosted the event for decades. Volunteers … heroes … all recognized for selfless work for the community’s behalf. This year’s nominees list is impossible to read […]

Worries about the numbers of homeless people at the Malibu Library continue. And the city council may hire another security guard down there.  Some parents say they are no longer attending programs for their kids at the Civic Center library because of the number of homeless people that they encounter in the facility. Some of […]

Malibu’s city council is going to ask for a 100 thousand dollar state grant … to pay for fire planning. This is actually the third such Malibu Community Wildfire Protection Plan. A 576 page plan was produced in the year 2010 by an nongovernment nonprofit ForEvergreen Forestry … a group that’s never been heard before […]

Anger and outrage is growing by some people in Malibu … as they discover that Southern California Edison plans to enter their property to cut down mature trees. Patt Healy … a Malibu environmental activist … says dozens of mature trees are targeted by the utility company as it plans to ostensibly reduce fire dangers. […]