Malibu California

A divided Malibu city council last night approved a legal agreement with the owner of a vacant lot at the Civic Center … where the owner sued in order to connect to the city’s sewer system. It was a 3 to 2 vote … with Mayor Karen Farrer and council members Skyler Peak and Rick […]

Public schools in Malibu may reopen in August with fewer kids in each classroom at any given time. The Santa Monica Malibu School superintendent sent out a letter to parents this morning … envisioning just what Will happen on August 20 when schools go back into session for the fall semester. Ben Drati says he […]

= A split Malibu city council decides to make a legal settlement with a Civic Center landowner. = Anti-development activists call it a sellout. = But the three-vote majority decides to save $300,000 to settle a lawsuit that wouldn’t accomplish anything anyway. = The Santa Monica Malibu school budget is out of wiggle room and […]

A heavy presence of law enforcement over the three day holiday weekend may reduced racing cars … and very loud motorcycles on Pacific Coast Highway. Or it may not have depending on who you talk to. Weekend beach crowds at Zuma Beach were actually fairly light … the parking lot only about 30% full on […]

This is F-M 99.1 … KBUU News These are the Tuesday Headlines: = A heavy police presence in Malibu over the weekend. = Less noise … less racing … say some. = Still the same .. say others. = Should the city fold in a lawsuit … over the sewer plant at the Civic Center. […]

A Malibu doctor and genetic sequencing lab researcher is hoping to keep politics out of her effort to determine if hydroxychloroquine works against coronavirus … as her lab starts FDA-approved tests on “hydroxy” to see if it can either prevent COVID-19. Hydroxychloroquine is nicknamed “hydroxy” by President Donald Trump. It’s his drug of choice to […]

L A County is reopening the Zuma Beach parking lot …but is walking away from an earlier county commitment to limit the parking lot capacity to reduce crowding on the beach. Efforts by Malibu to reopen the parking lot at Zuma Beach at 50 percent capacity… and ban parking along PCH … have failed. As […]

After dithering back and forth all week, L A County officials today said every other parking place in the Zuma Beach parking lot will be reopened for the holiday weekend. Gates to MRCA and county accessways will be officially open to the public as well. It appears that laying in the sand will not be […]

With KBUU All News all morning. And NPR All Things Considered all afternoon. This is F-M 99.1 … KBUU News These are the Friday Headlines: = Zuma Beach’s parking lots will be closed this holiday weekend … the plans have changed. = The transmission rate for the disease in L A County has dropped to […]

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva says he will defy a subpoena issued by the LA County civilian oversight board. The sheriff says that the subpoena is not lawful … and at a news conference yesterday the sheriff chafed at the civilian oversight that was imposed on him by 71 percent of the county’s voters […]