Malibu California

Fourth of July fireworks permits have been pulled by volunteers at Paradise Cove and the Malibu Colony. No final word yet on Broad Beach. As usual … in both cases there will be barges offshore with professionals launching the fireworks. Bluffs Park will be closed to the public … starting at sunset … so no […]

The Cailfornia Coastal Commission is going to raise its fees …. almost 25 percent. State law allows the commission fees to be raised every year to track inflation. In fact … they are required to raise their fees. But they haven’t done so for 11 years. Inflation has gone up 24.9 percent since the fees […]

The L A County sheriffs office is one of several police agencies across California that are failing to meet a state law about releasing public records about misconduct. A new California law requires the sheriff and other police agencies to disclose personnel records to the public. Reports about things like cops sexually assaulting detainees in jail. […]

Hundreds of Malibu residents are expressing anger … and plan to attend tonight’s Planning Commission meeting … as the city’s anti-mansionization ordinance goes up for public comment … and a possible decision by the Planning Commission. it will be a preliminary decision … the final call is up to the city council.  Realtors and land […]

This is KBUU News – day 234 after the fire – the Monday headlines: = Antimansionization … a threat to private property rights and a downzoning say some. = A way to save Malibu’s tattered rural character … say others. = The Planning Commission will get a huge turnout tonight. = Big waves atop high […]

=    Another motorcycle crash … another helicopter out … near Zuma Beach. =    Realtors are giving away pizza to get a big crowd at the Planning Commission. =    The city plans to tighten film shooting permit rules … after the Yves Saint Laurent debacle. =    And two third of a billion […]

The great Paradise Cove fashion show debacle is still reverberating at Malibu City Hall. You might recall that the fashion house Yves Saint Laurent staged a huge party at Paradise Cove disguised under a movie filming permit. Yves St. Laurent had tried to get a party permit for the spring fashion show … but that […]

The great Malibu Mansion debate is on.  Local realtors and construction advocates on one side.  Slow growth and anti-mansionization forces on the other.   In the middle … those Malibu residents sitting in smaller houses … who may be counting on cashing out for maximum sales value. That’s the stage set for Monday night’s planning […]

Southern California Edison is spending as much as $680 million this year for fire mitigation projects … and will earn a 10 percent profit on those expenses. And a study for Calmatters … a statewide journalism venture … says there is no measurement system in place to measure if that money is being spent wisely. […]

=  A truck fire forces the closure of Kanan Tunnel 2 … heading towards Malibu. =  Malibu beaches take a major hit in the latest water quality report card. =  A cougar is tranquilized at Will Rogers beach =  Endangered species protection for cougars may put the brakes on development in the Santa Monica Mountains. […]