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a glass-walled contemporary along Malibu’s Big Rock Beach he scooped up in 2018 for $5.6 million. The left-hand batting home run hitter, who grew up in the affluent ex-urban L.A. community of Thousand Oaks, also owns a decidedly traditional lakefront home in Westlake Village, Calif., that records show last sold in 2014 for close to $1.8 million.

“Life guards reported that more than 100,000 persons on the beach from Del Rey to the Malibu in the Santa Monica Bay district,” The Times reported the next day, “with 20,000 others venturing into the water in the Long Beach area during the day.” — Vanessa Bryant is “absolutely devastated” by allegations that Los Angeles County ...

School officials are investigating a noose found in the film production class green screen room on Malibu High School's campus. MALIBU, CA — Multiple students used a noose to threaten a peer at Malibu High School,

Letter addressed to Malibu High and Middle school parents and staff At Malibu High School, we take our responsibility for student, staff, and community safety very seriously and are reaching out to proactively let you know about an incident we are currently investigating. Every student should feel welcome at MHS. Unfortunately, recently ...

My dismissal remains puzzling. But Mikke and I both care deeply about Malibu and will find a way to move forward. In representing the public interest, commissioners are required to be critical, to read the planning codes closely and faithfully, and to accommodate stakeholders’ interests only within those constraints. Sometimes the codes ...

Malibu doctor Bryan Ney has been practicing medicine since 1985. While his Hippocratic oath is to heal and advocate healthy practices, of course, he also encourages “everybody to have a creative outlet.” With a general and internal medical practice in Los Angeles for 35 years, Ney’s profession generally does not allow for much creativity ...

Julia Christine Snyder, a 53-year-old Malibu woman, was being mourned across the city and remembered by friends who posted social media tributes as a “loving and kind soul,” an “amazing, sweet, lovely lady” who was “as beautiful inside as outside.” An investigation was ongoing Tuesday, Feb. 25, following the discovery of Snyder’s ...

There is good and bad going on in Malibu. First, the good. Our congratulations to this year’s Dolphin Award honorees, all of whom went well past what any of us had a right to expect. These are our people, of all ages, who gave time and energy above and beyond the call of duty to this community for which we are totally grateful. On the other ...

The design of Malibu’s temporary skate park, which the planning commission approved on Feb. 3, was changed again during the city council’s Feb. 24 meeting at the request of developers Scott Gillen and Robert Gold. The park is still slated to open in ...