Local developers buy East Hills Mall
Local developers Craig and Grant Carver of C & C Properties, Inc. and Chris Hayden and Mark Shuman of MarkChris Investments announced that they have closed escrow Friday on the East Hills Mall, a...
View ArticlePETE TITTL: This is your Sunday brunch spot
In the history of Sunday brunches in Bakersfield, we first had the legendary Red Lion buffet on Rosedale Highway, which dazzled us back in the 1980s with a spread worthy of Vegas. Buck Owens took up...
View ArticleThree kids injured in traffic collision
Three children were injured after being ejected from a minivan that collided with another vehicle Friday morning, police officials said.
View ArticleTwo rescued after six-car pile-up
Bakersfield Fire Department officials rescued two people Friday afternoon after a multi-car pileup on Highway 58 trapped them in their cars.
View ArticleSOUND OFF: Why allow readers to suggest John Wayne policing tactics?
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View ArticleMagic use early block party to set tone in win over Lakers
ORLANDO, Fla. — First-quarter flurries don't usually last very long in the NBA, but they did this time, carrying the Orlando Magic to a wire-to-wire, 109-90 victory over the slumping Los Angeles Lakers...
View ArticleBarnes' late shot lifts Mavericks past Clippers
LOS ANGELES — Harrison Barnes hit a floater in the lane with 3.7 seconds remaining, and the Dallas Mavericks defeated the short-handed Los Angeles Clippers 90-88 on Friday night at Staples Center.
View ArticleWitness helps police rescue five from sinking SUV
Police and volunteers from the Kern County Sheriff’s Office Search & Rescue Dive Rescue Team were able to pull the vehicle out of the canal.
View ArticleHERB BENHAM: Sweets for those who would not surrender
Tammy Smith needs therapy. No slam there, we all do. However, hers is cheap, tastes good and makes people happy.
View ArticleDerek Carr suffers broken leg in win over Colts
OAKLAND — The Oakland Raiders held on for a 33-25 victory against the Indianapolis Colts at the Oakland Coliseum on Saturday, but the triumph could turn out to be costly.
View ArticleKern County sports in 2016: Hello Madness, good-bye baseball, triumph and...
More so than most years, it seems, 2016 has been an annal of triumph and tragedy, agony and ecstasy for sports fans and their teams in Kern County.
View ArticleVince Gill on Merle Haggard: 'He told the truth, whatever it was, and the...
Perhaps being the subject of rapturous adoration for so many decades made Merle Haggard wary of easy praise, both receiving and giving it — especially giving it.
View ArticleBlaze erupts at vacant structure in east Bakersfield
A vacant structure caught fire Saturday evening in east Bakersfield, Kern County firefighters said.
View ArticleFire breaks out at vacant structure in east Bakersfield
A vacant structure caught fire Saturday evening in east Bakersfield, Kern County firefighters said.
View ArticleLetter to the editor: Maxwell talks out of both sides
“These are things that are cooked into the whole project anyway. We don’t know where we’d be without these lawsuits but it’s the public’s right to bring these lawsuits." — Ward 2 Councilman Terry...
View ArticleTwo dozen vie for mayor, council members booted: The year in politics
The election of Donald Trump as president was of course the biggest political story of the year. But our annual list is decidedly local, so he appears only tangentially here.
View ArticleLakers snap skids, defeat shorthanded Clippers
LOS ANGELES — Timofey Mozgov and Nick Young scored 19 points as the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Los Angeles Clippers 111-102 on Sunday.
View ArticleHERB BENHAM: Hallelujah for Bryan, Monty and Turk
Hallelujah. That might be some people’s reaction to Christmas being over but it is also the name of the song by Leonard Cohen that has been covered by about everybody including the woman behind the...
View ArticleMan fatally shot near Fremont Elementary School
A 31-year-old man was fatally shot Monday in an area northwest of Fremont Elementary School, police said.
View ArticleCommunity Voices: Time to take action on Kern's STD problem
Kern County is at a critical point in its fight to combat sexually transmitted diseases among our adolescent and young adult population.
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