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Gale force winds and large steep seas expected over the coastal waters through Monday morning. High surf on west-facing beaches can be expected tonight through Monday night.


Fire Saturday morning damaged a single-story commercial building in Malibu, authorities said.

Firefighters dispatched at 4:14 a.m. to the 21000 block of Pacific Coast Highway had the blaze out at 4:43 a.m., according to a Los Angeles County Fire Department dispatcher.

Later that morning, Chad Marshall posted via Instagram that it was the Brothers Marshall Surf Shop and Cultural Center that had caught fire.



“Everyone is safe, and although the store suffered some damage and we lost a lot of product, it is all replaceable and we will be back up and running soon," Chad Marshall said on Sunday. " The bummer was we lost a majority of the amazing product we had just made for our Morning of the Earth collaboration. Although the store is closed for a bit, you can still support us by pre-ordering the Morning of the Earth merch on our website and pick up any of our products that suit your fancy. A lot of people have asked how they can help, and this is definitely how, my friends! ”


In January 2023, the LA County Department of Beaches and Harbors and California State Parks cleared homeless encampments in the Surfrider Beach and Malibu Creek areas of the City. The teams addressed the issue in a service-oriented approach, offering homeless outreach services to the people in the encampments prior to clearing the area. Six full stake bed truckloads of material and 16 shopping carts were removed the sites.


From Santa Monica Close Up:

"City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works sanitation workers in white hazardous materials suits, with Action Environmental Services, Inc., clean-up homeless encampments at Venice Beach restrooms on Friday, February 3, 2023. Park Rangers were onsite during the cleanup. The Venice Beach clean-ups are conducted every Friday."

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From Santa Monica Close Up:

" Professional Sand Castle Builder Greg Leon builds a NASCAR themed sand castle at Santa Monica Beach on Friday, February 3, 2023. The sand castle is a promotion for NASCAR’s season-opening Busch Light Clash at The Coliseum Race at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Sunday. "

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Free admission to Santa Monica History Museum this Sunday, February 5th.


Surfing at the Venice Beach Pier on December 13, 2022. Video edited from our Instagram Story footage of this day.





Worker cleaning up the flooded Venice Boardwalk while a vendor nearby removes an angry homeless lady from the front of his business.





A man was foun d dead in his car in Venice Beach.

The man, who living in his car in Venice Blvd at the intersection of Abbot Kinney, was discovered around 8:43 p.m. on Wednesday.

LAFD released this statement:

"After obtaining a better view of the inside of the vehicle (despite condensation on the windows obstructing their view), firefighters discovered that the reported propane inside the vehicle was coming from small camping-style propane bottles. While the exact circumstances are unknown, it *appears* to have been an unhoused man (approx 70 years old) who was trying to stay warm in an enclosed space (propane-powered heat lamp) and, sadly, succumbed to accidental asphyxiation (oxygen displaced by leaking propane)."