A multidenominational gathering rang in the final Sunday before Christmas Day last weekend, Sunday, Dec. 22, with carolers representing congregations across Malibu including St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church and Our Lady of Malibu Catholic Church. Voices and music filled the air as carolers and musicians joined in the festive spirit at the ...

Dozens of Malibu dads gathered last Sunday, Dec. 15, at Ollie’s Duck and Dive for a beloved holiday tradition—the fourth annual Malibu Dads Holiday Get-Together. In addition to the annual festivities, this year, dads raised money for a local family that recently lost their home to a fire. Event organizers John White and Steve Clarke said ...

Malibu has been waiting in vain for the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the project but that does not seem to have slowed Edmiston down. • After five years, and an enormous amount of public input and vast amounts of money spent to design various amenities like a pool, a recreation center and additional ballfields, the new city council ...

The county homeless services authority caused some confusion when it changed the way it calculated the number of homeless in Malibu compared to previous years (this time not including unincorporated 90265 and Topanga), showing a decreased number of homeless individuals in the city. • The historic Adamson House, built on the ocean at ...

Kudos, certificates and many thanks to the legion (meaning, several hundred) of Malibu citizens and friends who stayed behind and helped save many homes from being burned in the Woolsey Fire. They stayed and fought despite an obvious official opposition from CalFire, the LA County Fire Department and the LA Sheriff’s Department, which all ...

The year was dominated by the aftermath of the Woolsey Fire. The loss of 473 residences in the city of Malibu and hundreds more (maybe up to 750) in greater Malibu (90265) reduced our local population by 16 percent, more when you add in the smoke-damaged who also had to leave. Multiple fire-scarred hillsides started sliding with the first ...

The City of Malibu is still struggling with complaints from some neighbors about abuse of short-term rentals and looking for an answer that will pass legal muster. The most recent attempt is to consider limiting short-term rentals to spaces where the homeowner is also present in the home, similar to something that Santa Monica has done ...

March brought fleet week to Malibu, when a US Navy guided missile cruiser, the USS Lake Champlain (CG-57), dropped anchor just off the Malibu Pier for a weekend visit, courtesy of the Department of the Navy and the Malibu Navy League, led by its president, retired Navy captain John Payne. The Cruiser, a deep draft combatant highly sought after ...

The Malibu real estate market weakened just a touch in 2019, according to Malibu Times real estate columnist Rick Wallace, and virtually ground to a halt in the two months after the Woolsey Fire, but that didn’t stop some major, big dollar transactions both before and after the fire. • Things were brewing in the LA County Sheriff’s ...

Labor Day Weekend brought 375,000 visitors to Malibu beaches and the kickoff of the 38th Annual Chili Cook-Off, which went off as scheduled, hosted this year for the second time by the Boys & Girls Club of Malibu. The weekend was hot; a 40-acre fire on Friday close to the location gave everyone a scare but the firefighters jumped on it and beat ...