Malibu California

Five candidates for four seats on the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School Board debated last night. It was a public form hosted by the Malibu Times and the Santa Monica Daily Press. Incumbent Craig Foster of Malibu … as well as board members Oscar De latorre … Richard Tahvildaran-Jesswein and Laurie Lieberman are seeking reelection […]

This is KBUU News – the headlines: =  The Malibu Canyon burglar stuck again … maybe… =  Jeers and shouts overwhelm Southern California Edison at its meeting about blackouts. =  The city files formal opposition to the Edison blackout plans. =  Point Dume residents give an earful to the school district over traffic and school […]

And … the city of Malibu has served papers on the California Public Utilities Commission … to modify the pre-emptive blackout plan.  The city is asking the CPUC to throw out its approval of allowing utilities to turn off power in bad winds. Like the CPUC action filed by other Malibu interests … the city […]

Two major stories this morning about the Southern California Edison power blackout plans. First, last night’s open house meeting hosted by the power company erupted into shouting and chaos … as local residents objected strongly to the plan. And … yesterday the Malibu city attorney filed an official objection with the state … over the […]

Somebody broke a window smashed a vending machine to steal food … at a building virtually next door to the Malibu Lost Hills Sheriff Station in Calabasas yesterday. This is news because it may be the same burglar who’s been stealing food from buildings near Malibu Creek State Park. And that is news because of […]

This is KBUU News – the headlines: = Malibu wants to be poison free … but there are termites in City Hall and orange oil isn’t gonna kill them. = The city’s poison policy sent back for refinement. = Get ready for another MRCA lawsuit … after the city council tells them to go pound […]

Malibu City Hall is infested with termites. And orange oil isn’t going to solve it. That icky fact intersected with a roomful of pesticide free Malibu advocates last night … when the city council tried to come up with an earth friendly property management policy. Kian Schulman … the president of Poison Free Malibu … […]

Get ready for another lawsuit from the MRCA against the City of Malibu. The Mountain Recreation and Conservation Authority … the M R C A … was turned down by unanimous five to nothing vote by the Malibu city council last night … again. The outside agency wants permission to build a house on a […]

He got away. A man who may have been the guy burglarizing offices in Malibu Canyon … who was videoed carrying a rifle in one raid … was spotted on Saturday at Tapia Park. That’s about a mile south of the main Malibu Creek State Park … where a camper was shot and killed inside […]

Power went out over western Malibu on Friday. And it appears to have been a planned outage …. that many people did -not- get notice of. The outage was not listed on the city’s website. The Southern California Edison company told people Friday that the power was out due to equipment failure. But after the […]