Malibu California

Malibu city manager Reva Feldman says the city was caught by surprise by both the timing of the project … and with the state’s unilateral decision to effectively close Latigo Beach. Feldman tells KBUU News that she is working the phones .. to try to find out why the state needs a 20-foot-wide construction zone […]

Caltrans is closing off all parking at Latigo Beach. The state agency announced plans for a 24-7 parking ban late yesterday … after the state agency realized that its lane realignment for a construction project had made parking at the beach dangerously unsafe. Motorists were shocked to find yesterday that … without notice to the […]

This is KBUU News. The headlines: = School starts tomorrow … school buses SHOULD be running. = Construction is not finished at Webster’s parking lot. = New vineyards will continue to be banned in the Santa Monica Mountains. = But the county says its new land use plan will be more friendly to horses … […]

Firefighters in northern California are furious at Verizon … Santa Clara County firefighters were dangerously hobbled by poor internet service while they were helping battle the monstrous Mendocino Complex fire in July. Santa Clara County sent a mobile communications truck up there … a dispatch center on wheels. And it relies on Verizon internet service. […]

Sea lions that wash ashore .. sick … at Malibu are often diagnosed with domoic acid poisoning. And sometimes people are forbidden from eating shellfish and other delicacies form local waters … because of domoic acid. What is happening … and why is it happening more often?? U S C has just released a major […]

L A county planners are drafting a new land use plan for the Santa Monica Mountains. Or at least the northern part of the mountains … generally north of Mulholland Highway. A packed meeting room last night in Calabasas … as the massive plan rewrite began with a public scoping session. Some residents described the […]

School starts tomorrow…. and it looks like school buses WILL be running. There was some question about that  … due to a problem with a new state law. The law requires school buses to have a device in the back row … which must be manually checked by the bus driver at the start and […]

This is KBUU News on Tuesday August 21.  The headlines: = Forget about parking valets at the Malibu Beach Inn shuttling cars across PCH … not gonna happen. = But the hotel’s plan for a swimming pool on the beachfront may mean double stacked cars right on P C H.   = More visitors to Malibu […]

A dispute over a new house at the top of the hill above Zuma Beach is spilling over to the California Coastal Commission. A plan to build a 43 hundred square foot mansion … with a second unit and pool … has been approved by the Malibu plannign commission … and the city council It’s […]

More now from that public safety meeting in Malibu Canyon on Sunday. Over 200 people … many from Malibu …attended. The topic was the shootings in Malibu canyon. But Lieutenant Jim Royal … who is in effect the deputy police chief of Malibu … broached the subject of petty crime along the coast. Royal says […]