The holidays provide a good opportunity to spend quality time with family, friends and co-workers while making deposits in our relationships. Naturally, conversation and talking with people is a big part of this season. Most people are very good at talking about themselves; however, the best gift this year is the gift of listening, and it doesn ...

Just before Christmas, power couple Aaron Rodgers and Danica Patrick closed on a $28 million Malibu bluff-top, ocean-front estate in an all-cash, off-market transaction, according to Variety. The couple had leased the house over the summer. Patrick, 37, is the most successful woman in the history of American open-wheel racing—her win in the ...

Actress Brie Larson, 30, who won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the 2015 film “Room,” has purchased a home in Malibu for $3.4 million. According to Variety, the 2,100-square-foot mid-century cottage with swimming pool was originally ...

Malibu Surf Team coach John Cross (center right) accepts a check presented by Malibu Rotary Club members (from left) Steve Harwood, Carlye Rudkin and Margo Neal. The check was one of several donations made by the Rotary Club in December.

His cell phone and a brown wallet containing multiple credit cards were stolen. There were no cameras available for evidence. Two designer rings were stolen from a home in an unidentified area of Malibu. The rings had been located in the victim’s drawer in the master bedroom. The victim told deputies the last time she saw the ring was on Oct. 20.

Hardworking Malibu Times office dog Ginger Sawicki takes some much-deserved rest beneath the Christmas tree. Ginger makes the season extra festive by distributing fluff from chewed up toys like little snowballs everywhere she goes.

Thank those who help you and even those who merely don’t hinder you. A kind note is not overdoing it. Along those lines, many thanks to Malibu Urgent Care and, later, Las Robles Regional Medical Center, which were able to provide my grandson with exceptional care on Dec. 26. Watching an extremely high level surgeon, Dr. Choi, set a very ...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Bureau is continuing its investigation into the body of a woman found in Malibu Lagoon on Dec. 20. As of the time The Malibu Times went to print, detectives and county officials had not publicly identified the body, nor did officials confirm the woman’s identity. In the days since the ...

More from Variety Despite being only 33 years old, White is enormously wealthy and has already owned more than a dozen properties across the country, from ski chalets in snowy Park City, Utah to luxury apartments in New York City to pricey bungalows on the sandy beaches of Carlsbad, Calif. and up in Malibu. He can afford that sort of portfolio ...

And U.S. military veterans and first-responders suffering from PTSD, depression and other ailments are finding that out as participants in special equine psychotherapy programs being offered by Reins of HOPE in Malibu, Ojai and Santa Ynez. That healing ...