Malibu California

Drive thru testing resumes at Malibu City Hall for the first time this week … and city officials say anyone who is worried about having been exposed should make an appointment to get a test. Even if they don’t show symptoms.  The testing effort is offered by the City of Malibu … Community Organized Relief […]

Two weeks ago .. KBUU ran a news story about a researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Kim Prather is the Distinguished Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry at Scripps … which is a college within UC San Diego.  She was interviewed by a reporter from the Los Angeles Times. In it … she was quoted […]

If you have paid car insurance … business insurance … or other type of insurance payments in the past few weeks … you may get a refund. The state Insurance Commissioner this morning ordered insurance companies to refund car insurance premiums to consumers. Also .. refund to businesses for  workers’ compensation, commercial multi-peril, commercial liability, […]

Gentle rains … but a lot of them .. hit Malibu last week. Up near Saddle Peak they got almost 6 inches of rain in 6 days. Here at the beaches … 2 to 3 inches. When the inevitable dry and warmer weather arrives . there will be a huge crop of grasses and weeds. […]

City of Malibu drive thru testing for COVID-19 will resume Wednesday Thursday and Friday at city hall. Now taking reservations: https://www.malibumedicalgroup.com/contents/covid-19 —— LA County reports 9192 confirmed cases.  296 deaths. In Ventura County … 314 confirmed cases … 10 deaths. Malibu has been inching up … one new case confirmed each of the last four […]

With KBUU All News all morning. And NPR All Things Considered all afternoon. This is F-M 99.1 … KBUU News Day 521 – the Monday Headlines: = Nurses are put on leave in Santa Monica for refusing to enter to COVID rooms without N-95 masks. = And now a second hospital – UCLA Santa Monica […]

The Malibu City Council will consider an emergency rent control and ban on evictions Monday night. If approved by a four member majority … the eviction ban and rent control ordnance would take effect immediately. Governor Gavin Newsom has given municipalities like Malibu Authority to enact such a sweeping powers over landlords. The Malibu ordinance […]

Some nurses at one of the closest hospitals to Malibu are on the picket lines this morning. Providence st. John Hospital in Santa Monica is accused of forcing nurses to work in COVID-19 wards proper personal protective equipment. The nurses say there is a shortage of N-95 masks … and they are only giving surgical […]

The last day of drive thru testing … today at Malibu City Hall. The urgent need for immediate testing may have abated. More and more hospitals and clinics offer tests … and more importantly … most Californians have been practicing extreme social distancing for more than the 14 day incubation period. LA County’s mass-scale drive […]

The county has extended its “stay-at-home” orders until May 15. And stay-at-home restrictions could remain into the summer. But up to 30% of residents could be infected by mid-summer without more behavioral changes, … such as reducing shopping trips. The dramatic social distancing the county is now seeing … may not be enough. And … all […]