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Controversy continues over a large movie shoot at the James Cameron wilderness park … above Puerco Canyon. The mountains recreation conservation of authority … MRCA … has issued a film permit for a large production shoot on vacant land just outside the city limits. No county movie permit … no city permit … just an […]

The MRCA says the city of Malibu is biased as it denied them permission to build a house next to a creek in lower Ramirez Canyon … the Sycamore Park neighborhood. MRCA has used state water bond money … intended to protect creeks and riparian areas … by preserving vancat land. They bought a vacant […]

Malibu’s city council votes to tighten significantly regulations on vacation rentals … but not ban them. One permit per person … and no off-site rentals … under the first version of the ordinance. The M R C A plan to build a campground above Malibu gets attacked by the city. Edison’s plan to black out […]

Southern California Edison had a big hurry-up meeting  … yesterday … with City of Malibu officials. The power company has already developed a plan to turn off the power to Malibu  … with two days advance notice if possible … when strong Santa Ana winds arrive. Remember … this is the blackout plan that no […]

Lawyers for a school groundskeeper dying of cancer have opened their trails again Monsanto … the maker of RoundUp … a weed killer sold and used around the world .. including by the M R C A in Puerco Canyon. Dewayne Johnson claims Roundup likely caused his deadly non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Johnson was a school maintenance […]

The City of Malibu has issued a major legal broadside against the M R C A … and its plans for a giant campground in the hills above Malibu. The city alleges that the M R C A illegally launched an environmental review on the project all by itself … when a major part of […]

Bed and breakfasts … and other vacation rentals … will be legal in Malibu. But highly regulated … the city council decided early this morning. Council members stopped just short of banning short term rentals … bit it’s the end of the wild west … says the mayor. At the meeting … Jefferson Wagner said […]

The Malibu City Council last night approved the framework for a major crackdown on overnight rentals like B and B. Under terms of the tentative plan, the owner or main tenant of a dwelling would have to be on premises for the unit to be rented out. But other major issues, such as whether vacation […]

One of the most divisive issues in Malibu’s two and a half decades of cityhood goes before the city council tonight. Short term rentals. Some Malibu residents have been complaining for nearly a decade … that their streets are being turned into loud party motel zones. Other residents have been renting out houses … guest […]

Frustrations of Malibu Canyon residents into the total news blackout on the recent murder of a camper have made news again in Los Angeles. Tristan Beaudette was murdered in his tent about 2-1/2 weeks ago. Since that time … there has been a total news blackout from the L A County Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau. And […]