Staggering summer heat has raised wildfire risk exponentially this year with significant new growth as a result of the wet winter season. According to statistics from California from CalFire 626,000 acres have burned to date in 2024. Currently the Park fire is raging in Northern California with over 300,000 acres burned at zero containment. A…
This week, the Giorgio Armani Mare Capsule Collection made its California coastal debut. The collection opened Tuesday July 16th with a start-studded celebrity dinner party at Soho House’s Malibu location, Little Beach House. The pop-up, open until July 20th is located on the first-floor terrace of Little Beach House Malibu designed with custom turquoise Mare tropical palm…
The animal rescue community has rallied together raising fears $25,000 for information leading to the arrest of the person or persoons responsible for dumping a German Shepard with a zip tied muzzle on a hiking trail in Malibu July 3rd. The LA County Sheriff’s Department responded to a call from hikers who discovered the dog…
Ten years after the controversial development project slipped through the political cracks – and the Measure R formula retail ordinance aimed at preserving Malibu’s coastal rural character – the property has been sold for a whopping $80,000,000. Despite Measure R overwhelmingly passing with 67% of the vote in November 2014 to keep chain stores out…
Legal counsel for Nobu and Malibu resident, Perry Wander, announced on social media shortly before the Fourth of July, that his client, Nobu Malibu, would move forward with the annual high-profile White Party hosted by Bootsy Bellows. As a result of that decision, one of the guests who attended the event, social media influencer Summer…
This article was updated at July 6th, 2024, 2:21 PM. The Fourth of July holiday ended with a fatal head-on collision on PCH in Malibu, killing one person. That brings the total count to 61 people killed in a 14-year period on one of the nations deadliest stretch of highways. Sources at the LA County…
Almost 15 years after she was released from the Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff’s Station shortly after midnight on September 17th, 2009, Mitrice Richardson’s disappearance continues to get attention. Her case has become known as one of the most tragic examples of negligence and mishandling by members of law enforcement in a potential murder case. Richardson was…
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Malibu Daily News Editor in Chief Cece Woods founded The Local Malibu, an activism based platform, in 2014. The publication was instrumental in the success of two ballot measures, seating three Malibu City Councilmen in 2016 and the supporting the top two vote-getters again in 2020.
During the summer of 2018, Woods exposed the law enforcement cover-up in the Malibu Creek State Park Shootings and a few short months later, provided the most comprehensive local news coverage during the Woolsey Fire attracting over 1 million hits across her social media platforms.