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Controversial plans by the Malibu Beach Inn to spread their business across Pacific Coast Highway in central Malibu may have been dealt a death blow. Owners of the hotel have convinced Caltrans and the Coastal Commission to let them install a new traffic light on PCH … just east of the existing traffic light at […]

Howdy Kabrins … the Malibu man who lost his daughter to a madman in South Africa … is still waiting for justice. The trial … near Cape Town … went on hold again Monday … when the defendant said he was not feeling well. Accoridng to an interview with the South Africa TV channel 24 […]

Efforts to help people living on the street in Malibu … or in the canyons … or hidden behind the Civic Center …. have gotten results. As we reported last week … the annual homeless count in Malibu shows a 14 percent drop this year. That’s slightly less than the overall decline reported in Western […]

Broad Beach has won a legal battle over the route that its thousands of trucks will use to being sand from Ventura County to Malibu. The California Court of Appeal ruled that their sand relocation project was not subject to California’s main environmental law. Or … at least the truck route portion of it. A […]

Jefferson Wagner speaks out … not about his legal case … but defending his fellow council members. One faction of Malibu attacks city council members for nor defending Wagner. Santa Monica’s school board members throw in the towel on fundraising equity … after 10 years. A $55 million contract to rebuild the front part of […]

Morning View Drive is going to be widened in front of Malibu High School. The city of Malibu is going to require the Santa Monica Malibu unified school district to move the sidewalk further onto the school campus … and remove and replace the trees currently growing along the street. The school board is being […]

After years of bitter unhappiness at Malibu High School … the school board appears to be finally throwing in the towel … on equity between campus parent donations. A formal policy … to divorce the fundraising activities between Malibu and Santa Monica … will go before the school board Thursday. The basic idea: let Malibu […]

In other city council news … a request for a time extension … to allow a classic car museum to be built on PCH at Billionaires Beach … was denied by the city council last night. It was a complicated case … developer Norm Haney had been given a 2-year permit to build the museum […]

Malibu city councilman Jefferson Wagner spoke out for the first time last night … on the felony investigation brought by the L-A County District Attorney. Wagner spoke both through his lawyer and from the podium at the city council meeting. Wagner’s attorney … Gary Smith … made the first public comment on behalf of the […]

= Jefferson Wagner speaks out … not about his legal case … but defending his fellow council members. = One faction of Malibu attacks city council members for nor defending Wagner. = Santa Monica’s school board members throw in the towel on fundraising equity … after 10 years. = A $55 million contract to rebuild […]