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Pepperdine University has five new COVID-19 cases. Three staff members. A law college student. And a graduate student in education psychology. The school yesterday changed its policy on reopening to on-campus instruction this fall. Pepperdine was one of the first colleges to announce plans to reopen dorms and start in person classes this fall. Those […]

Moonshadows Restaurant in Malibu has reported nine cases of COVID-19 sickness … according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Six of the staff are confirmed positive by tests … another three have symptoms but have not been confirmed by tests. This data according to the L A County Department of Public Health. […]

= Pepperdine cancels plans for on campus classes … and students are not taking it well. = 5 new COVID cases at Pepperdine … = And there are nine cases of the disease reported at one eastside Malibu restaurant. = A woman is killed on PCH … near Paradise Cove. = A possible window …. […]

= Calabasas uses the same cops who patrol Malibu … to crack down on COVID violators. = If you see a party house … call the deputies and they will close it down .. says Calabasas. = Malibu schools get a break … so do kids from over the hill. = Out of district enrollment […]

Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva is fighting with all he’s got to oppose a proposal to allow voters to decide on a measure to shift money for social services away from the sheriff. The Board of Supervisors today will vote on placing a county charter amendment before voters this fall. If approved … 10 percent […]

NOTE: This story was corrected Tuesday night to reflect that Steve Uhring was appointed by Skylar Peak to the Planning Commission, not Rick Mullen (boldface below). We turn to some rather small town politics that may be becoming the new normal in Malibu. Last night … at a meeting … one planning commissioner called the […]

From F-M 99.1 … KBUU News … these are the Tuesday Headlines: = Another record level of Coronavirus hospital cases in the local area. = Ten thousand public servants have contracted COVID in L A County. = Nobody threw any folding chairs … but the The Jerry Springer Show erupted on the planning commission zoom […]

In news about SCE power poles causing fires … do you want the good news or the bad news first? California’s utility regulation agency .. the CPUC …  finally has a Widlfire Safety Division. 15 people … looking for power poles that are unsafe and could cause fire.  Now … the bad news. It’s based […]

MALIBU CASE COUNT: 71 SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS: 69 Fifty-three percent of the new COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles County tested this weekend occurred in people under the age of 41 years old. Today, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) has confirmed 11 new deaths and 2,848 new cases of COVID-19. Public […]

In Malibu … like in the rest of California … people are supposed to wear masks. Supposed to  … but not required to. There is no law requiring people to wear masks in public … in Malibu. There is such an ordinance in other cities … including Calabasas. The City of Calabasas has enacted a […]