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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 … […]

A large southerly swell will move into the waters Wednesday evening. Surf will build to 8 to 11 feet on south-facing beaches, especially from Point Dume west past Zuma Beach. The surf will begin to subside Friday afternoon and evening. —— …And on the other side of Pacific Coast Highway… Very dangerous heat and elevated […]