• The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors mandated new drought-driven, very limiting water use standards, which impacted many Malibu homes and gardens — particularly for those people with larger properties and many trees. Those who go over their targeted amounts could be paying double the standard cost for water. The target for the Topanga and Malibu area is a reduction of water usage of 36 percent, calculated using what some charge is a highly arbitrary formula.
• June was a bad month for fatalities on Malibu roads. A male pedestrian was killed on PCH near Busch Drive at 9 p.m. on Tuesday, June 2. On Saturday, June 13, Dewayne Lawrence Coleman, a ’90s rapper known as MC Supreme, was killed when his truck, which was parked alongside the highway, was hit and flipped over. In a daytime accident on June 21, a 53-year-old male driving a Tesla went over the side of Malibu Canyon Road, falling an estimated 500 feet and engulfing the vehicle in flames.
• Former Los Angeles Dodger Billy Ashley took over as the new baseball coach at MHS. Ashley came to Malibu from Westlake High School, where he coached for three years.