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A man from Los Angeles is recovering after hurting his leg on a hike Sunday … and spending three days stuck on a mountainside in Malibu Creek State Park. Marcelo Santos … age 33 … ripped apart his knee while on a hike Sunday. He fell down a mountainside and lost his backpack … and […]
Malibu may be drinking desalinated water … from a proposed plant near L A X. Edison has finished converting Malibu Canyon’s power poles to steel. School bus passes costs for Malibu kids may be hiked by the Santa Monica school board. And the LA County supervisors approve tearing down Gladstone’s … in a few years […]
And speaking of electricity … that regional energy alliance that will soon start selling electricity in Malibu is setting its rates. The Clean Power Alliance of Southern California is a cooperative … buying electricity on the wholesale market … using Edison lines for delivery … and selling it to consumers. The Clean Power Alliance is […]
L-A County supervisors yesterday approved the idea of tearing down the iconic … if poorly received … Gladstones seafood restaurant on Pacific Coast Highway. It might replaced with a new beachfront dining complex designed by Frank Gehry and operated by Wolfgang Puck … and run by some veteran restaurant industry execs. The supervisors asked the […]
Four years after it was supposed to be finished …. a coalition of electric and wireless communications companies has finished converting the spindly wooden power poles in Malibu Canyon into steel poles. Southern California Edison announced yesterday that the project is done. 82 wooden poles removed. 65 steel poles installed. The project was ordered because […]
Could Malibu be drinking desalinated ocean water soon? And what would that mean for the ocean environment? How would the salty brine affect fish in Santa Monica Bay? The West Basin Municipal Water District is the wholesale water agency that buys water delivered from the State water project … and sells it to County waterworks […]
Traffic already jammed this morning with the signal timing … as caltrans tries to figure this out. And now comes word that one eastbound lane of P C H will be closed at 9 this morning. Some major decisions coming up on an independent Malibu school district … and the future of Malibu High. And […]
For decades … Gladstones For Fish restaurant has been a landmark on P C H … known for terrible food and a throng of tourists. Soon … no more. L-A’s Board of Supervisors today is scheduled to vote on a plan to evict Gladstone’s from its county owned primo ocean front spot at the foot […]
School may be out this week …. but two vital public meetings are coming up next week. The Monday … the Malibu city council will meet to discuss Santa Monica’s terms of surrender for an independent Malibu School District. The Santa Monica-based school board voted 6 to 1 last month to allow Malibu to have […]
Caltrans officials say they are working on the signal timing at the three traffic lights in central Malibu … where even during this spring break week … unusual traffic jams are occurring. Signals at Cross Creek Road … Webb Way … and Malibu Canyon Road have been put on timers and disconnected from roadway sensors […]