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This is KBUU News – the headlines: =  Malibu takes ownership of three vacant commercial lots… and =  The Civic Center area is about to undergo a convulsion of change,. =  A decades long tussle over horse corrals along Piuma Road appears to be nearing surrender … but =  An entire grove of pepper trees […]

We’ve been telling you about how the state’s utilities are handling their new authroity to kill the power to areas where high winds cause a fire danger. Malibu has been notified that electricity service can be cut off by Southern California Edison … if it makes the determination that its power lines could cause a […]

The California Coastal Commission is scheduled to possibly take action against property owners on Piuma Road … next week at its meeting in Fort Bragg. And that may settle a decades-long fight over a horse arena … corrals and other activity at a mansion halfway up the mountain … east of the Saddle Peak Lodge […]

The changing face of Malibu’s Civic Center … tops our news this morning. Some 15 years after Legacy Park was built … the face of central Malibu is undergoing changes. And they all seem to be coming together now. First … the city took ownership yesterday of two important chunks of vacant land … plus […]

https://www.radiomalibu.net/kbuu-newswire-thu-sep-6/ This is KBUU News – the headlines: =  Human bones found just off the 101 Freeway in Calabasas. =  Most wildfires are -NOT- caused by power lines … so why are the lights going to get turned off in high winds? =  City council candidates get free time on the radio. =  Tests underway […]

How risky are overhead power lines … in terms of causing wildfires? The 20 biggest wildfires in California we’re analyzed by the San Francisco Chronicle. Only two of them we’re caused by powerline failures … Power lines that did not meet state safety regulations. A third fire was caused buy power lines that met State […]

As scheduled… the City of Malibu conducted its emergency notification test yesterday at midday. Did you get yours? Here at the radio station … our FioS phones and Verizon cell phones … went off … Plus our email accounts … all got the alarms as scheduled. REVATEST :21 QQQQ: THIS IS ONLY A TEST. “This […]

Tests are still on the way … both on fish and on the water from the Malibu Lagoon … after last week’s massive fish die-off of striped mullet. A huge number of striped mullet went belly up a week ago. And it appears possible that a huge amount of healthy fish remains in the lagoon […]

https://www.radiomalibu.net/kbuu-newswire-wed-sept-5/ This is KBUU News – the headlines: = Another litter of inbred mountain lions born in the Sant Monica Mountains. = What to prevent everyone in Malibu from turning their garage into a vacation rental? = Not much … and the city planning commission doesn’t much like that. = Caltrans changes its mind a […]

A third set of stripes has been laid down on Pacific Coast Highway … between Puerco Canyon and Latigo Beach. Caltrans contractors sandblasted and scraped the road over the weekend … trying to cover up an apparent mistake in the design of a temporary realignment of the road. The state is installing a new median […]