Above: Jim Young cuts the ribbon marking the opening of the Bakersfield College Educational Center in Arvin To see full ...

On Thursday, February 6, Sheryl Anne Dykman (67) from Frazier Park was driving her blue Dodge Ram 1500 down Frazier Mountain Park Road when, as the California Highway Patrol (CHP) stated, an “unsafe ...

On January 30, at around 5:28 p.m., an SUV with a driver and two passengers pulling a trailer driving southbound on ...

On January 27, 2025, CalRecycle released a notice of “Proposed Emergency Action” in response to “significant illegal disposal of organic waste and construction and demolition waste occurring in the ...

On Thursday, February 6, local author Wayne Diehl spoke at Adventure Ink Bookstore and Tearoom in Pine Mountain Club (PMC).

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The devastation of the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires have left thousands without housing or many of their belongings. Like so many seeing the tragedy unfold, mountain residents Pam McCain and ...

On Tuesday, January 21 at 6:08 p.m., Kern County Fire Department (KCFD) Emergency Dispatch received a report of an elevator entrapment at the National Cement plant in Lebec, CA. When the Los Angeles ...

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At about 4:45 Monday morning on January 20, I heard what I thought were gunshots. I stepped outside to discover a fire, presumably a house, burning on the next block here in Los Padres Estates. The ...