Malibu California

California’s housing crunch has triggered some changes in state laws … and the impacts may be coming soon to a neighborhood near you. Your neighbor may soon be adding a rental apartment … on their lot … and it will not be a bootleg unit like the old days. Second units are legal on nearly […]

In news from up and down the coast … Santa Monica is relenting … and will allow Bird and Line to continue placing electric scooters on the SaMo sidewalks. The two companies had been frozen out … but the city administration relented and added them to the list of four companies authorized to rent electric […]

Los Angeles County is coming up with version 2 of an overnight parking ban … for the caravan of ratty looking RVs … converted buses and campers just east of the Malibu city limit. The P C H shoulder between Pacific Palisades and Malibu has become a ramshackle campground. Parking used to be banned between […]

The first public forum between the five Malibu residents seeking to city council seats this fall went off last night … at the Red Ladder art gallery at the Civic Center. About 40 people in attendance. The candidates were allowed to introduce themselves … and then say what their first thoughts were. Alphabetically … Olivia […]

The 38th annual Malibu chili cook off kicks off tonight at the Malibu Civic Center. It’s different but the same … for the first time this year the Malibu Kiwanis club is not running the Annual event. Some controversy about that … the owner of the land has ousted the Kiwanis club … without comment […]

Caltrans will restore legal parking … and shoulder walking areas … along Pacific Coast Highway at the construction zone in central Malibu. This … after news reports about a dangerous parking situation on KBUU … plus the station’s reports of the closure of a popular beach. Then … demands from the Malibu city manager … […]

This is KBUU News – the Thursday headlines: =  Burglars hit upper Malibu Park … one home entered with people asleep inside. =  The fake motorcycle cops who paralyzed PCH are identified by police. =  Six groups in Topanga demand that Edison cancel its preemptive blackouts in winds. =  The Chili Cookoff will support Malibu […]

Santa Monica school officials are getting ready to divorce Malibu … and Malibu will soon be on its own to support its schools. Negotiations continue behind closed doors … between the city of Malibu and Santa Monica school officials … over specifics of a divorce agreement. But fundraising for basic school activities has already been […]

The Topanga Community Alliance is demanding that Southern California Edison call off its plan to black out local power circuits in heavy Santa Ana winds. Six civic groups in Topanga .. including the Chamber of Commerce and the Topanga Town Council … signed a letter sent to the utility company yesterday. They are demanding that […]

The motorcycle guards who paralyzed traffic in Malibu last week have been caught … after a Malibu resident chased them up Pacific Coast Highway … taking pictures. LA County sheriff’s deputies and the California Highway Patrol continue to investigate the incident … but said it’s unlikely that citations can be issued because police officers did […]