Sanders visits Delano home of UFW, calls for fracking ban to improve local...
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, on a stop Sunday at the original Delano headquarters of the United Farm Workers union, called for renewing efforts to help Central Valley ag laborers,...
View ArticleFieldworker first in family to graduate
High school students across Kern County will march across auditoriums, stages and fields this week to collect their diplomas in a ceremony that has become synonymous with crossing the threshold of...
View ArticleDecades of Kern political history goes online
The Kern County Elections Division has opened a digital wormhole into our electoral past.Staffers have scanned a veritable mountain of historical elections documents into digital files and linked to it...
View ArticleLocals get into the swing of pickleball
Bakersfield’s official pickleball ambassador, Carolyn Reinen, sounded almost discouraged the other day as she watched four doubles matches going on simultaneously at Jastro Park.Sixteen players ranging...
View ArticleChavez baseball wins repeat championship
VISALIA — Beauty is in the eye of the title-holder, and for the second straight year in Central Section Division V baseball, that’s Chavez High School.The second-seeded Titans beat No. 1...
View ArticleHigh temperatures expected throughout week
Triple-digit temperatures are expected in Bakersfield Wednesday through Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.Tuesday will just miss the 100-degree mark with a high of 99, according to...
View ArticleDodgers manage just one hit in loss to Cubs
CHICAGO — Starter Jason Hammel’s third inning cramp turned into an opportunity for Travis Wood and the Chicago Cubs bullpen on Monday.Wood (3-0) rode to the rescue and pitched four perfect innings in...
View ArticleAngels rally to give Chacin first AL win
ANAHEIM — Right-hander Jhoulys Chacin earned his first American League victory as the Los Angeles Angels used a late rally to defeat the Detroit Tigers, 5-1, Monday night in front of 38,541 at Angel...
View ArticleRedwood runs over Tehachapi in D-II baseball final
VISALIA — Two nightmarish innings cost Tehachapi its shot at a Central Section Division II baseball crown.Visalia-Redwood routed the Warriors 14-4 on Monday night at Rawhide Ballpark, taking advantage...
View ArticleFuneral services for May 31, 2016
Services pending Ruby Adkisson, 87, Porterville, May 27. Basham Funeral Care.
View ArticleSecond former BPD detective facing charges, choices
Even as thousands of Kern County residents took a day off from work Monday, former Bakersfield police Detective Patrick Mara was with his family facing down one of the most difficult decisions of his...
View ArticleAt least 29 shootings, 14 dead in Bakersfield area past two months
Two fatal shootings over the holiday weekend marked the 13th and 14th homicides by gunfire in the Bakersfield area within the past two months, There have been at least 29 shootings resulting in injury...
View ArticleFuneral services for June 1, 2016
Services scheduled Tharrell Dean Ming, 79, Bakersfield, May 27. Service 11 a.m. June 4, St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church. Mission Family Mortuary.
View ArticleWe're number 119!
Bakersfield ranks 119th out of 150 cities nationwide as the best place for a "stay-cation" this summer, according to website WalletHub.com, so go ahead and turn your car off. And by car, we mean your...
View ArticleSponsors light fuse on annual River Walk fireworks show
After 10 sponsors stepped up, including one that overlooked its own financial difficulties to contribute, the City of Bakersfield’s free annual Fourth of July celebration is officially a go, City...
View ArticleAn institution lost
Televangelist Jan Crouch, who co-founded the Trinity Broadcasting Network with her husband more than four decades ago, died Tuesday just days after she suffered a stroke, her family said on the...
View ArticleHand the ganja to Ricky
If you’ve ever wanted to work out like Kevin Spacey in American Beauty, then San Francisco’s upcoming Power Plant Fitness is your gym, reports SFGate.com.Former NFL pro-bowler and outspoken cannabis...
View ArticleNOR's plan for skaters
The North Beardsley Skate Park is one step closer to opening thanks to an award from the state’s Land and Water Conservation Fund.North of the River Marketing Director Lisa Plank said Tuesday the award...
View ArticleWise words on resumes
When Tina Nicolai began working as a recruiter for Walt Disney World in the late 1990s, she noticed that many job seekers were submitting flawed résumés. "I realized people simply did not know how to...
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