Doubleheader on tap at Kern County Raceway
It’s a doubleheader weekend at Kern County Raceway Park with action on both the Dirt Track and the pavement track.Pro Stocks, B-Mods, Mod Lites and Mini Dwarfs take the Dirt Track on Friday night, with...
View ArticleWasco promotes Rowland to head football coach
When Rusvel Prado, the most successful coach in Wasco’s football history, stepped down last year to join the school administration, the Tigers didn’t want to change too much about his program.And so...
View ArticleSupervisors to take last step in KMC management change
On Tuesday Kern County supervisors will take the final step in the long process of creating the Kern County Hospital Authority and transferring control of Kern Medical Center to the independent...
View ArticleContractors hired for first Centennial Corridor demolitions
It’s almost curtains for 47 vacant properties in the path of the future Centennial Corridor freeway segment, all of which are owned by the City of Bakersfield.The Bakersfield City Council on Wednesday...
View ArticleNew lawsuit filed against Delano district after another alleged victim emerges
The attorney representing an underage girl filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Delano Joint Union High School District alleging that a former student affairs specialist there engaged in a pattern of...
View ArticleBullet train officials ditch back-up plan for Shafter station
California’s high-speed rail agency has come up with a new back-up plan for its initial stop in Kern County: a temporary station in Wasco near the city’s existing Amtrak platform.The change was...
View ArticleMan sentenced to life term in fatal stabbing
James Simental entered Kern County Superior Court Thursday and faced the man who stabbed his brother to death during a heated argument in August 2014.Upon being asked if family of the victim wanted to...
View ArticleTeen girl missing
A 17-year-old girl is missing and considered at risk because of a medical condition, police said.Sabrina Ornelas was last seen at 10:15 p.m. Wednesday in the 2600 block of Akers Road. She’s described...
View ArticleMAYORAL CANDIDATE PROFILE: T.J. Esposito
Twenty-five people — yes, 25 — are running for mayor of Bakersfield. To help voters choose among them, The Californian is running candidate profiles based on questionnaires sent to them.To read the...
View ArticleAnsolabehere clocks fastest time on first day of Olympic trials
SARASOTA, Fla. — Bakersfield native Greg Ansolabehere recorded the fastest qualifying time in Thursday’s men’s single sculls at the U.S. Rowing Olympic Trials at Nathan Benderson Park.Ansolabehere...
View ArticleDucks defeat Predators to even series
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – So much for home-ice advantage.Doing to the Nashville Predators what was done to them in the first two games of the series, Anaheim equaled the Western Conference quarterfinal series...
View ArticleSeven-run rally in 8th lifts BC baseball past L.A. Valley
Bakersfield College scored seven runs in the bottom of the eighth inning Thursday to wipe out a 3-0 deficit and downed Los Angeles Valley 7-3 in a Western State Conference South Division baseball game...
View ArticleBC advances two doubles teams
OJAI — Bakersfield College Men’s Tennis No. 1 doubles team of Sammy Ramirez and Austin Lee advanced to today’s round of 32 at the Ojai Tournament with a first-round win on ThursdayOn the women’s side...
View ArticleFishing Report for April 22
KERN COUNTYLAKE ISABELLA: Winds have hampered fishing this week, but there is still a pretty good catfish bite on super meal worms, minnows, and frozen shad. Most are in the three to six-pound range....
View ArticleMERLO: Fishing shining bright for local anglers
California Aqueduct Red Hot There’s plenty of quality action going on across the valley floor as spawning gamefish head into the shallows all around the valley.
View ArticleBC female athlete of the week: Madalyn Arambula
Madalyn ArambulaSophomore, softball, C-3B
View ArticleLiberty hands Stockdale rare baseball loss
A frustrating mid-season slump appears to be finished for both left-handed pitcher Austin Palacios and his Liberty Patriots.They proved that much at home Thursday when Palacios threw a complete game...
View ArticleBlaze quiets Storm, 7-4
Jay Baum hit a two-run home run, Drew Jackson had two hits and two RBIs and the Blaze beat Lake Elsinore 7-4 on Thursday night at Sam Lynn Ballpark, erasing an early 3-0 deficit.Eddie Campbell (2-0)...
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