The crash involved two vehicles and was called in to 9-1-1 just after six o'clock, according to Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff's Station Watch Sgt. Braden. As of 8:50 a.m. Friday, Braden estimated the highway would be closed for an additional "two to three hours." Drivers were encouraged to avoid the area.

Most Malibu residents thought it was inevitable. When a fifth grocery store—the behemoth Whole Foods Market—opened in the Malibu Civic Center, it seemed the death knell for the small Pacific Coast Greens, which has been serving Malibu for a quarter of ...

Pacific Coast Highway is closed in both directions near Topanga Canyon Road in Malibu after a crash killed one person ... Big Rock Beach to Topanga Canyon Road until at least 10 a.m., according to sheriff’s officials and the California Highway Patrol.

RELATED: Volunteers rush to evacuate horses, goats as wildfire burns near Reagan Library Thousands forced to evacuate as fierce winds fuel wildfires across California Last year Trump made a similar threat as wildfires devastated Malibu and Paradise ...

Wildfire season in California makes headlines every year, but it’s nothing unnatural and nothing new. It’s been a cruel fact of nature up and down the once Golden State since before I was born. When I was growing up my father had a ranch near Malibu. We had some wildfires out there, but what got burned were barns, stables and lots of grass ...

Last year in November, in Southern California, the so-called Woolsey Fire burned nearly 97,000 acres and damaged and destroyed 1,600 homes or other structures in Malibu and parts of Ventura County. The biggest fire last year occurred in Northern California. The Camp Fire, which investigators say stemmed from a faulty PG&E electrical line ...

Southern California Edison says it's likely its equipment caused a wildfire last year that killed three people and destroyed more than 1,600 homes and other buildings. The Woolsey Fire in November burned from north of Los Angeles south through Malibu to the sea. In its quarterly earnings report released Tuesday, Southern California Edison said ...

Officials have not determined whether power lines sparked last November’s Woolsey fire that burned more than 96,000 acres of land in Ventura County and Malibu. “The company remains committed to supporting our customers and communities affected by the recent wildfires. Our hearts go out to all of those who have suffered losses during this ...

Meanwhile, in Southern California, recovery from the Woolsey fire — which ripped through Malibu, the Santa Monica Mountains and eastern Ventura County — has been agonizingly slow. Abalone once were to California what lobster is to Maine and blue crab to Maryland. The coast here once teemed with millions of white abalone. But overfishing ...

And that was before the Camp fire destroyed Paradise, in Northern California, burning down thousands of homes and killing 86 people. As that fire burned, the Woolsey fire tore through Malibu and other parts of Southern California, burning nearly 100,000 acres. This year’s fires have been less destructive partly because of preparation and ...