Malibu California

Politics is getting nasty in Santa Monica. Santa Monica Malibu school board member Oscar de la Torre’s wife is suing the city council … and is represented by Malibu lawyer Kevin Schenkman. They are arguing that holding citywide elections for Santa Monica city council discriminates against minorities … The Santa Monica Daily Press reports that […]

As fires burn across California … this tweet from the President of the United States … about the California fires. The president just said .. and we quote … “California wildfires are being magnified & made so much worse by the bad environmental laws which aren’t allowing massive amount of readily available water to be […]

This is KBUU News.  In the headlines: = A 76-year-old woman shoots and kills her husband … just over the hill. = An investigation is opened … why was a badly injured Malibu man dropped off at the Labor Exchange??? = Coastal now says … plan for a 10 foot increase in ocean height over […]

The California coastal commission now estimates that ocean levels will increase along the coast by 10 feet in the next 80 years. And the state is getting ready to an act policies to get ready for that. At the California coastal commission meeting this month … the state will will likely adopt new projections to […]

Malibu has found a new Dial-A-Ride operator. Starting next Monday …. the low-cost transit service for seniors will be offered by Ventura Transit System … a privately owned company based in Camarillo. The city subsidizes rides for Malibu residents… age 60 and older … to get to and from doctor appointments, grocery stores, and the […]

An investigation has been opened into how LA County Sheriff’s deputies handled the discovery of a badly injured Malibu man … found wandering in Malibu. Terry Stafford had attended a fourth of July party at Malibu Cove colony … near Escondido Beach … His wife was unable to reach him on the phone the next […]

A 76-year-old woman shot and killed a man … apparently her husband … at a house in the Santa Monica Mountains late Wednesday. The suspect is identified as Patricia Farran, 76. Her husband ….  75-year-old Arnold Farran. Malibu lost Hills sheriffs deputies was sent to the 500 block of Westlake Boulevard … just north of […]

This is KBUU News.  The headlines:  = Edison officials Southern California might have 2 …might have 10 intentional power blackouts in Santa Anas this year.  = Malibu residents predict chaos … and maybe even elderly people dying … if air conditioning is cut off in extreme heat.  = The state is OK with the blackouts … as […]

Los Angeles county has figured out why hundreds of Malibu voters where ousted from the voting rolls in the June primary election. The Los Angeles times reports it was a software glitch that misinterpreted state voter data … This dropped 118,500 names eligible-voter rosters on election day in June. There was no evidence of a […]

Industrial scale moviemaking returned to a wilderness park in Malibu yesterday. Residents of Puerco Canyon in were horrified to see huge trucks … buses and equipment hauled up the narrow switchback road … owned by the City of Malibu … that accesses the James Cameron wilderness Park. Bicyclists who normally use the mountain road were […]