As Pacific Palisades and Malibu residents pick through the ashes of 6,000 homes destroyed in the catastrophic fire earlier this month, a
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On January 7, as flames tore through Pacific Palisades and Malibu, Mayor Karen Bass was overseas, despite deadly wind warnings issued nearly a week prior. The catastrophic Santa Ana wind event resulted in the Palisades Fire, which burned 23,000 acres,
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By Sam Hall Kaplan Let there be no mistake about a recall for my ailing Malibu. It would be wrenching, for a city already fractured by a dwindling citizenry displaced by a
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The Local Malibu recently confirmed at least two high ranking officers have been transferred from the Lost Hills Sheriff’s Department as a result of an Internal Affairs Investigation regarding the Malibu Creek
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By Paul Taublieb I just wanted to find out what happened. My confusion started Friday, Nov. 9th, the day fire came to Malibu and Point Dume. I walked to the firehouse on
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Malibu’s lush green hillsides are a welcome site after the devastating Woolsey Fire. However, to achieve those neon hues that are brightening up our local landscape, we have had to endure a
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As 2018 came to a close, so did an era at the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department…or so at least we thought until last Monday’s charges were filed against Anthony Rauda in the
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Editor’s Note: Millie Decker died peacefully in her sleep on Christmas Eve 2018. She was 98 years old. This story, by Amelia Fleetwood, and produced by Tara Owens, was originally published in
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The City Observed by Sam Hall Kaplan The holiday season is almost over, but sadly the daily reminders of the disastrous fire and an overpaid, under performing City Manager, her indulged entourage
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Our resident pitbull with building and planning (even more so after the Woolsey Fire!), Architect Lester Tobias, goes deep on the subject of debris. Debris Removal: A Burnout’s Analysis I have been
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Local architect Lester Tobias has given our readers a first hand account of the frustration residents are experiencing with the debris removal process (no thanks to the City and the County’s communication
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Our resident pitbull with building and planning (even more so after the Woolsey Fire!), Architect Lester Tobias, navigates us through Supervisor Sheila Kuehl’s Town Hall Meetings which, in a nutshell was too
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