Malibu California

Efforts to help people living on the street in Malibu … or in the canyons … or hidden behind the Civic Center …. have gotten results. As we reported last week … the annual homeless count in Malibu shows a 14 percent drop this year. That’s slightly less than the overall decline reported in Western […]

Broad Beach has won a legal battle over the route that its thousands of trucks will use to being sand from Ventura County to Malibu. The California Court of Appeal ruled that their sand relocation project was not subject to California’s main environmental law. Or … at least the truck route portion of it. A […]

Jefferson Wagner speaks out … not about his legal case … but defending his fellow council members. One faction of Malibu attacks city council members for nor defending Wagner. Santa Monica’s school board members throw in the towel on fundraising equity … after 10 years. A $55 million contract to rebuild the front part of […]

Morning View Drive is going to be widened in front of Malibu High School. The city of Malibu is going to require the Santa Monica Malibu unified school district to move the sidewalk further onto the school campus … and remove and replace the trees currently growing along the street. The school board is being […]

After years of bitter unhappiness at Malibu High School … the school board appears to be finally throwing in the towel … on equity between campus parent donations. A formal policy … to divorce the fundraising activities between Malibu and Santa Monica … will go before the school board Thursday. The basic idea: let Malibu […]

In other city council news … a request for a time extension … to allow a classic car museum to be built on PCH at Billionaires Beach … was denied by the city council last night. It was a complicated case … developer Norm Haney had been given a 2-year permit to build the museum […]

Malibu city councilman Jefferson Wagner spoke out for the first time last night … on the felony investigation brought by the L-A County District Attorney. Wagner spoke both through his lawyer and from the podium at the city council meeting. Wagner’s attorney … Gary Smith … made the first public comment on behalf of the […]

= Jefferson Wagner speaks out … not about his legal case … but defending his fellow council members. = One faction of Malibu attacks city council members for nor defending Wagner. = Santa Monica’s school board members throw in the towel on fundraising equity … after 10 years. = A $55 million contract to rebuild […]

PCH was closed both directions at Big Rock … a pole went down … wires across the highway 8-10am The Malibu Playhouse gets sold to a rock and roller … but what his plans are … not clear. Big waves today and tomorrow … watch for T V trucks. A half million ballots STILL need […]

Traffic on P C H was at a dead stop for two hours this morning. Just after eight in the morning … a car hit a power pole on the Pacific coast highway just east of big rock. The pole went down … the car flipped over … and wires fell on the Pacific coast […]