Blog

If your business or pleasure takes you to Ventura or Oxnard today … be aware that the road will be closed for a few minutes. The second stage of the Amgen tour of California will see about 130 bicyclists race from the Ventura Harbor east to Camarillo. The bike race crosses the Malibu access routes […]

After more than 20 years of requests …. the City of Malibu is poised to have an ordinance that will do two things. (A): It will begin restoring Malibu’s dark skies at night. (B): It may set neighbor against neighbor. The dark sky ordinance is aimed at restoring the once-velvet black skies of mnalibu … […]

Traffic cops will be out on force on PCH today … The school superintendent will appear at the city council meeting Monday to explain shifting traffic jams to Point Dume. The Golden State Killer may have struck within 35 miles of Malibu. Pelicans may be getting sick… a lot of them.… This is Malibu’s only […]

As we told you yesterday … California regulators were ready to approve a rule that requires all newly built single family houses to have solar panels. Indeed … the California Energy Commission voted 5-0 to approve the measure. The rule is set to take effect in 2020 and does not need the approval of the […]

Also on the council agenda … and we told you a little about this earlier this week … For 24 thousand dollars a year … Malibu can get Freeway Service Patrol trucks stationed pn Pacific Coast Highway. Everyone in Malibu has experienced big crashes that have blocked off the PCH between Santa Monica and Malibu. […]

There are lots of questions … still … about plans by the Santa Monica Malibu School District to realign its Malibu schools. This means the closure of Cabrillo Elementary in one year …. and transfer 200 students to Point Dume … That also means transferring traffic … the daily Cabrillo jams … to Point Dume. […]

Less than a week after a crackdown on pedestrians and bikes … the local sheriff’s office is going to swarm P C H today … targeting motorcycles. But car drivers will also get tickets .. if the special motorcycle enforcement action catches speeding or other offenses. A specialized Motorcycle Safety Enforcement Operation will be underway […]

You may have seen that amusing Internet video of two brown pelicans divebombing the Pepperdine University graduation ceremony two weeks ago. That may have been the first local sign that an epidemic is sweeping through the California Brown pelican population. Up and down the coast of Southern California … the number of sick and dying […]

  Those narrow lanes on PCH cause one driver to lose the left side of her car.   The M R C A violates county and city rules… spraying Roundup on the side of a road.   A Monday deadline to gather signatures to overturn Malibu’s pot delivery ban.   And some officials in Calabasas […]

Malibu wasn’t the first American city to ban plastic straws and bags … but it may be the most famous. Other cities across the U-S are now considering  “Malibu ordinances.” One of them … Calabasas … where the storm drains lead to Malibu Creek and Surfrider beach. According to the Acorn newspaper … there is […]