How has California responded? It is about to drop the ball. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget would eliminate the ...

The Trump administration’s announcement that it would pull $4 billion for the state’s bullet train project is likely to mean ...

Four communities in Kern County are targeted for mobile air-quality monitoring vehicles that will collect pollution data, part of a new program in California. The California Air Resources Board has ...

A threat to take back $4 billion is political theater. We’ve been here before. In 2019, the Trump administration tried the same move and lost in court.

This spring, the National Institutes of Health quietly began terminating programs at scores of colleges that prepared ...

The National Council on Teacher Quality gave most graduate credentialing programs an "F" in elementary math preparation. Are ...

Kevin Albertson has been named the new Chief of the Bakersfield Fire Department, effective June 2, 2025.He was named by City ...

Drier summers and wetter winters are expanding the range of the fungus. The same conditions drive increasingly intense ...

This story was originally published on EdSurge. The number of students experiencing homelessness who were enrolled in ...

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Gene Bogart, who ushered in an era of new projects for the City of Bakersfield’s water department, died May 31. He was 78. ...