Blog

Calabasas has held its ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of the new 101 Freeway Lost Hills overpass. 37-million dollars in regional Metro sales tax money went to widen that bridge … make it look nice and pretty. And just up the freeway … Agoura Hills is about to help itself to $13 million in […]

The City of Malibu is trying to find out from Southern California Edison just what the heck is going on … with a new plan to shut the electricity off to Malibu in severe fire weather. The California Public Utilities Commission is set to vote on this next week … The state says interested parties […]

The Fourth of July resulted in at least two major car crashes … and two major parties within blocks of each other in western Malibu. Five fire trucks were called out to work a crash on Pacific Coast highway at Puerco Canyon Road. Earlier …. a crash snarled PCH at Rambla Pacifico. Very few instances […]

A Fire Weather Alert has been issued for Malibu … and huge waves are expected today and tomorrow. First … an unusual summertime Santa Ana windstorm is possible to hit Malibu. The National Weather Service has issued a Fire Weather Watch for Malibu and the Santa Monica Mountains …. starting later this afternoon. Gusty north […]

This is KBUU News. The headlines: = 11 foot waves are expected to arrive right at fireworks time tomorrow night. = The Fourth of July we’ll be cool .. But expect ties of around 90° on the beach Thursday and 112º inland. = Will there be fireworks at the Civic Center? We just don’t know. […]

Tomorrow is … of course … the 4th of July. Malibu will continue it’s decades long traditions of neighborhood parades and firework shoots. Nothing official … big or citywide is ever planned here … given the reality that it would just attract millions of people from over the hill. There’s still some confusion as to […]

Malibu’s city council is being called back from summer vacation next Monday to sign the mortgage for the purchase of three vacant lots … three very important vacant lots. The city is buying almost 10 acres of land called the chili cook off site … Also … a one acre site surrounded by streets at […]

The state of California is about to give the local electric company permission to black out portions of Southern California whenever it gets really windy. Next week in San Francisco … the California Public Utilities Commission will vote on a plan to formalize procedures for pre-emptive safety power outages. And make no mistake … Malibu […]

It was four years ago that hurricane Marie churned the waters down off of Baja … and sent waves big enough to cause damaging coastal flooding into Los Angeles County. No damage to Malibu … but there was coastal flooding down in Orange County and the Seal Beach area. The National Weather Service is now […]

This is KBUU News – The headlines: Lots of hikers and picnickers in Malibu Canyon over the weekend…. no warnings about the two shootings this summer. There were 6 shootings in Malibu Canyon over a nine month period. But they ended almost a year ago. One shooting two weeks ago  … then the murder … […]