Malibu California

CHP officers report writing dozens of tickets last weekend on Kanan-Dume Road … as they. Exotic car drivers and motorcyclists from across Southern California … taking advantage of stay at home orders to turn local roads into race tracks. CHP Sergeant Dave Kajiwara tells KBUU chases are frequent. One on Sunday led to a mtorocycle […]

The coronavirus is surging in Orange County. Up more than 500 from a week ago. And the curve there may go up even sharper … as thousands of people went to the beach. That is a big deal to those of us 50 miles north in Malibu … wondering when the gates will open to […]

With KBUU all news all morning. And NPR All Things Considered all afternoon. This is F-M 99.1 … KBUU News These are the Tuesday Headlines: = The governor may send in the CHP to thin crowds at Orange County beaches. = Newsom warns reopened beaches were too crowded … he wants access tightened. = Death […]

A thick weekend fog bank may have done more to reduce crowds in Malibu last weekend … than did the heavy sheriff’s presence. At the very few beaches that were open in Southern California … reports were that moderately heavy crowds performed pretty well … in terms of social distancing. But Friday  … overcrowding was […]

A proposal to convert an office building and an abandoned gas station at Billionaire’s Beach … into a ritzy hotel … has been in the works at City Hall for 3-1/2 years. Developer Norm Haynie has been doing the preperatory work … aimed at converting the abandoned Shell gas station and the 30-year-old office complex. […]

California’s has nearly 500 cities. They say they will collectively lose $6.7 billion over the next two years because of the coronavirus pandemic. Not Malibu. Malibu’s rich property valuations and continued strong property tax collections means the COVID-19 virus will not hurt the city very badly. In fact … the city manager projects a deficit […]

With KBUU All News all morning. And NPR All Things Considered all afternoon. This is F-M 99.1 … KBUU News The Monday Headlines: = Thick fog reduces the pressure on Malibu beaches. = But some residents complain that outsiders were on sand .. while locals were ordered off. = Public health officials say … the […]

Sheriff’s officials are crediting a Malibu Volunteer on Patrol for putting out a fire and possibly averting s major injury to a homeless person. Last Monday … volunteer Bill Melcher was on routine patrol in Malibu. This ewas at 5:30 Monday evening. Melcher spotted a plume of smoke rising from a behind small fenced area, […]

A heat advisory for Malibu and the Santa Monica Mountains goes into effect at 11 this morning … and remains in place until 6 tomorrow night. The National Weather Service says highs up to 97 are possible in the San Fernando Valley … 92 along the 101 freeway in Agoura Hills. As for the winds […]

On the beaches of the Southland … it’s pretty much locals only at the few beaches that are open. And Malibu is not among them. Deputies are repeatedly sweeping the so-called private beaches … like Little Dume. Elsewhere…. it’s locals only are allowed at Newport Beach. Locals only at beaches in Port Hueneme, Oxnard and Ventura. No […]