Rande Gerber is probably best known as an impresario, the husband of supermodel Cindy Crawford and owner of Café Habana, and when it comes to Malibu, he tells it like it is. He recently told C Magazine he lives in Malibu “because it’s a small beach town with locals who are mostly here for the same reason: to escape the stress and ...

Walter Hill has officially bid farewell to his Malibu home of 15 years. The prolific action director behind “The Warriors” and “The Driver” sold the beach house on Tuesday for $8.225 million, or $770,000 shy of the November asking price. Hill still managed to profit on the property. Records show he paid just over $7 million for it back ...

Last year, 38-year-old Malibu attorney Kevin Shenkman made his fortune and changed the way many communities, including Novato and San Rafael, elect public officials. Shenkman’s idea was that California’s Voters Rights Act of 2001 requires most governmental entities to elect governing boards from geographically based districts.

U.S. Border Patrol agents seized more than 60 pounds of marijuana near an abandoned boat on Sunday in Malibu. Agents responded to a report from the Maritime Coordination Center about a beached panga, commonly known as a fishing boat, at Deer Creek Beach near Point Mugu State Park. No one was found near or aboard the 40-foot vessel that had ...

Living in Malibu is a privilege, but for us suckers paying five-figure property taxes it’s now clear that privilege can be absolutely free to anyone clever enough to game our increasingly dysfunctional system of toothless law enforcement and court-sponsored chaos.

Okay, let’s get something straight right now. I am not making this stuff up in order to sell copies of this esteemed newspaper, although I am certainly not above appealing to your prurient interests to increase my readership. I was online looking for breaking news when I saw the following headline on CNN, “Thousands of ‘penis fish ...

Malibu residents can expect changes to the way they vote in 2020. The new changes come as a result of the 2016 California Voter’s Choice Act (CVCA), a law allowing specific counties to adopt a new election model designed by the state. Currently, 15 counties across the state are participating. Beginning in 2020, vote centers in Los Angeles ...

Two weeks ago, I was visiting relatives and friends on the East Coast, just outside Philadelphia, and spent a few hours on a cold, gray afternoon observing the rehearsal of an annual Christmas Day reenactment of Washington crossing the Delaware. It just so ...

The postseason accolades just keep washing in for the Pepperdine Waves men’s water polo team. Five Waves were named to the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches’ All-America list on Dec. 17. This came four days after Pepperdine head coach Terry Schroeder was named the Golden Coast Conference Coach of the Year for the second time ...

The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA) announced in a Tuesday, Dec. 17, Facebook post that two young male mountain lions—P-78 and P-79—have been added to its study of big cats in the region. According to the post, which was written by Public Affairs Officer Ana Beatriz Cholo, P-78 was captured in the central portion of ...