Celebration has turned to frustration as the potential traffic consequences of upgrading Highway 58 between Bakersfield and ...

A business-improvement initiative months in the planning will debut Wednesday at Taft College as leaders from across the area ...

Local schools are redoubling their efforts to prepare for the possibility that federal agents could show up on campuses to carry out immigration enforcement activity following the Trump administration ...

Kern County sheep and goat farmers gathered on a vacant lot south of Taft Highway Wednesday to sound an alarm over state ...

Bakersfield's longest-standing chamber of commerce welcomed new leadership Wednesday during a luncheon that brought about 300 ...

Questions swirled Tuesday around an executive order President Donald Trump signed Monday that, depending how it is ultimately ...

The building was boarded up and looked vacant except for one detail: Someone had pulled back the plywood just enough to sneak ...

Locally elected congressmen and industry representatives said they were encouraged by the energy policies mentioned in ...

Kern's first chief economic development officer has stepped down to work on a tech startup while serving as the inaugural ...

Methane generated by solid waste dumped at Kern's Bena Landfill east of Bakersfield will be collected and refined for sale to the University of California, with some of the revenue ...

New twists emerged Thursday in the case of a U.S. citizen whose truck tires were slashed by federal border patrol agents ...

Laborers who stayed away from work during last week's immigration sweeps in Kern County have largely returned to the job, employers and others monitoring the situation said Tuesday. People in the ...