Malibu California

Malibu’s city council has an incredible amount of work on the agenda today. =  There’s the final approval year next year’s budget. =  Discussion on what the priority will be for the 14 large construction projects that the city would like to build over the next six years. =  A vote on opening contract discussions […]

California Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday released details about a bailout bill for the shareholders and customers of Southern California Edison … and two other investor owned  utilities. A surcharge that was levied on California ratepayers nearly 20 years ago … during power shortages caused by Enron and other profiteers … was set to expire […]

Officials at the new utility cooperatives that has taken over supplying electricity to most of Malibu see their rates are going up because Southern California Edison has raised their rates. Also … the state of California is making the new energy cooperative pay four past blunders made by S C E. Many Malibu residents have […]

A circle of 25 people stood quietly on the side of Pacific Coast Highway at the western end of Malibu yesterday evening. Flowers and votive candles on the pavement. Inside the Neptune’s Net restaurant … hundreds of tourists and locals chowed down on calamari and fish … mostly oblivious to the tragedy of the night […]

A violent fight in the parking lot at Neptunes Net at 11 last night ends with a 23-year-old man from La Puente dead – his throat slashed and body stabbed multiple times. The slashing stemmed from a “previously unresolved issue” and was witnessed by a large group of car enthusiasts, gathered in the parking lot […]

=    Defending Malibu against rising ocean levels will cost 67 million dollars … and take two miles of seawalls. =    A new study looks at exactly what rising ocean levels means to the Malibu coast. =    City officials are making plans to take over Charmlee Park … but M R C A […]

The Woolsey Fire wiped out almost all of a program aimed at reintroducing the California red-legged frog into the Santa Monica Mountains. Hundreds of frogs perished. Their creeks have been scorched … then filled with choking mud and ash. Biologists had been very happy with the program that started five years ago In the weeks […]

The National Weather Service has issued a red flag warning up in Northern California. And Southern California Edison is warning some residents up in the Antelope Valley that their electricity may be turned off due to high winds today. No outages so far yet .. just the possibility. And no blackouts anywhere near Malibu. The […]

City officials are making plans to take over the Charmlee Park … in the mountains above western Malibu … The city owns the park … but had leased it in a land deal with t he Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority … the M R C  A. That deal was to gain control of vacant […]

Defending Malibu against rising seas will cost about 67 million dollars and require two miles of seawalls. That’s according to a new study that estimates that the cost of armoring the California coast would be at least $22 billion. And for the entire United States … more than $400 billion. And that’s just a “minimum […]