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Southern California Edison will take its plan to turn off the electric power to Malibu to City Hall this afternoon. At 5 o’clock at City Hall … the utility will unveil its so-called Public Safety Power Shut Off Program. That’s its newly approved authority to shut off electricity to entire areas … when Santa Ana […]

This is KBUU News. In the headlines: =The Malibu Beach Inn plan to expands across P C H goes to the Planning Commission in 3 weeks. = Chopping off the top of a hill will be a very expensive mistake for one Malibu landowner. = Santa Monica plans to increase beach parking on PCH at […]

A state agency has decided it’s a good idea to spray Roundup in the water supply that feeds the San Francisco Bay Area … Los Angeles … and yes Malibu. The Sacramento Bee reports that the state Division of Boating and Waterways has sprayed relatively small amounts of Roundup directly into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. […]

Gripes about summer beach crowds have been around since PCH was opened 1926. But here’s more evidence that it’s getting worse the summer. The city of Santa Monica has decided it will know longer rent out the parking lot next to the Santa Monica Pier for long-running special events. The reason: too many beach visitors. […]

Bulldozing a huge rocky formation off the top of a hill above Trancas is proving to be a very expensive mistake for one Malibu homeowner. A rocky outcropping on upper Trancas Canyon Road was removed two years ago … bulldozed away to improve ocean views from the ground floor of a two story house. A […]

The proposal by the Malibu Beach Inn to move its parking lot across P C H continues to move through City Hall. It will go before the Planning Commission August 20th. The beachfront hotel wants to put its parking on the inland side of P C H … and down the street a few hundred […]

Two Point Dume residents chased down a car burglary gang on Point Dume Saturday … leading to the arrest of at least two men who were using two brand new … possibly stolen cars to break into from vehicles on Point Dume. The men were spotted in a Range Rover with paper plates… and a […]

Malibu voters will face a 195 million dollar school bond election on this fall’s ballot. The Santa Monica-Malibu school board placed separate bond issues for Malibu and Santa Monica on the November ballots in the two cities. Santa Monica voters will decide on a $485 million bond issue … according to coverage int he Santa […]

Before we start our next story … it is critical to understand … there is no link whatsoever between these cases. But three bodies have been discovered in and near Malibu in the past four days. First … a homeless man’s body discovered at his encampment … in Temescal Canyon in pacific Palisades. L A […]