Just after sunset on September 29, 2020, 11-year-old Mark and 8-year-old Jacob Iskander were skating across Triunfo Canyon Road with their mother in Westlake Village when tragedy struck. As the boys followed behind crossing at Saddle Mountain Drive, they were hit and killed by a speeding vehicle. Both boys died instantly. Multiple eyewitnesses described a…
They say lightning doesn’t strike twice, but Malibu knows better. In just seven years, another wildfire scorched through the region, this time gutting areas that had barely escaped the wrath of Woolsey. But the flames weren’t the only thing making a comeback. Adding insult to injury, Reva Feldman, the former Malibu city manager whose disastrous handling of…
As charred neighborhoods in Pacific Palisades still smolder from the January 2025 wildfire, Governor Gavin Newsom rolled out a $101 million “recovery” package, promising to rebuild with low-income housing. But beneath the banner of equity and resilience lies a deeper agenda, one critics say is about fundamentally reshaping California’s most desirable zip codes under the…
In the fall of 2018, after months of terror with a shooter on the loose in Malibu Canyon, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department arrested 42 year-old Anthony Rauda in connection with the murder of Tristan Beaudette and multiple shootings. The shootings occurred in and around Malibu Creek State Park between November 2016 and June…
As California barrels into yet another brutal wildfire season, Big Rock Burning is turning heads on the international stage. The documentary — which was recently shopped to distributors at the Cannes Film Festival — doesn’t hold back in exposing just how unprepared Los Angeles was when fast-moving firestorms tore through Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Topanga, and…
The City of Malibu is advancing its Speed Safety Program, aiming to install automated speed cameras along the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) to enhance road safety. This initiative follows the enactment of Senate Bill 1297 (SB 1297), signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom on September 27, 2024. The legislation authorizes the installation of five…
Just weeks after Malibu officials lined up with golden shovels at the April 11 groundbreaking for the city’s long-awaited permanent skatepark, City Hall quietly attempted to slam the gates shut on the beloved temporary facility—before a single scoop of dirt had been turned. Their plan? Dismantle the temporary skatepark on Sunday, April 27 with barely…
On May 10, the same politicians who fumbled Malibu into chaos – Mayor Doug Stewart, Mikke Pierson, Karen Farrer, Paul Grisanti, and Lou La Monte—will gather at a private estate to raise money for Sheriff Robert Luna, a man whose tenure has been defined by disaster, deflection, and death. It’s a perfect match. Failed leaders…
A fresh wave of political garbage just landed in the mailboxes of Malibu residents – an anonymous, fear-mongering flyer attacking Council member Steve Uhring, accusing him of ignoring building code violations on his property for over 270 days. The flyer, hiding behind the flimsy name “Malibu Residents for Fairness,” paints Uhring as a corrupt, vindictive…
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Editor-in-Chief Cece Woods founded Malibu Daily News in 2021.
Woods began publishing in 2013, creating the lifestyle publication 90265 Magazine. One year later, she launched 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 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.
Woods went on to create the LA political platform The Current Report, exposing the corruption at LA Metro under Philip Washington. She worked with Federal investigators, a watchdog organization, and senators, ultimately leading to Washington withdrawing his nomination to become head of the FAA.
In 2020, Woods added Cali Mag to her extensive list of successful publications.