Malibu California

There was a crash yesterday … on Pacific Coast Highway at Trancas Canyon Road. One injury … a driver whose car flipped over. P C H was blocked for 95 minutes … traffic diverted down Broad Beach Road … a huge traffic jam. But this story isn’t about the crash. it’s about the delay … […]

This is KBUU News.  The Wednesday headlines:   Heat advisory continues … up to 86 beaches … 108 on the 101.   If you got stuck behind the crash yesterday … get ready .., it’ s going to get a lot worse.   Grumbling grows over Edison Company pre-emptive power cuts.   Malibu’s plastic straw ban […]

This is KBUU News – the headlines:   108 for a high at Kanan Dume tunnel 1.    A new beach accessway approved … on a curving stretch of P C H.   Outrage .. and a new court action … over the Hollister Ranch lockup.   That crackdown on electric scooters in Santa Monica […]

Turns out that big crackdown on electric scooters on the bike path in Santa Monica last week was a giant photo op … and not much more. The Santa Monica Daily Press newspaper followed up … and found out that the highly visible effort to get electric scooters off the beach yielded zero tickets and […]

How will the city of Malibu pay for that big land purchase … three vacant lots at the Civic Center and Point Dume? 29 acres of prime commercial land will be purchased … for 43 million dollars. Next Thursday … the Metro board of directors in Los Angeles will approve the last step in the […]

Malibu’s city council last night approved creation of a new beach accessway … along P C H. The Mountain Resources and Conservation Authority … the M R C A … wants to build a stairway  and gate at a lot it owns  … just west of the Moonshadows parking lot. The city council had already […]

If you were listing to KBUU Radio yesterday morning … you may have heard us report about the tortoise jam on Keenan Dume Road. Traffic was briefly held up while the CHP and county sheriffs deputies dealt with a giant Desert Tortoise … lumbering across the roadway up at Rocky Oaks. The tortoise was briefly […]

This is KBUU News.  The headlines: The Godmother of Malibu passes away. High surf and hot weather. Speed limits go up and up. More efforts to save P C H get underway … in eastern Malibu .. today. Bird scooters … a crackdown in Santa Monica … but they’re heading our way. This is Malibu’s […]

The city council meets tonight. They will vote on a 180 Thousand dollar contract with The People Concern for continued homeless outreach efforts. That’s twice as much as last year … but concrete progress has been made … according to a new report from the city manager. 30 homeless people who used to live in […]

The Los Angeles Times has a big story over the weekend on how the California legislature forces speed limits to go up and up and up. Under California law … the speed limit on a major street has to be set according to the average speed of traffic … if police are to be allowed […]