The Kern County Board of Supervisors met July 15 for its scheduled Board Meeting. Supervisor Phillip Peters (District 1), ...

The Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Foundation (CJDF) has honored Mark Corum with the 2025 Volunteer of the Year Award. Corum ...

Congressman Vince Fong (CA-20), as a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, discussed the costly and mismanaged high-speed rail project with Department of Transportation (DOT ...

Senator Shannon Grove is revved up to announce that Senate Bill 712, also known as Leno’s Law, passed out of the Assembly ...

Today, family physician Dr. Jasmeet Bains announced her campaign for Congress in California’s 22nd District, pledging to bring new leadership to a region often ignored by Washington, ...

Rosemary Kathleen Day, 63, of Taft, California, passed away peacefully on June 30, 2025, in Bakersfield, California.

An apparently burglary attempt ended with the suspect being shot by a homeowner on the 300 block of Montview Avenue early ...

Taft College and the Kern County Library are teaming up for series of summer programs aimed at children but open for everyone ...

Charles Robert Evarts, 79, was called home to be with the Lord on June 29, 2025, in Bakersfield, California. Born in ...

Ruthie Lee Statler, aged 80, passed away at her home in Springfield, Missouri on. She was born on November 23, 1944, near Jonesboro, Arkansas, where she became ...

The Kern County Coroner confirmed the man burned in a fireworks explosion on June 29 died from his injuries. Jose Ignacio ...

An investigation is underway into a shooting in South Taft early Monday. Taft Police and Kern County Sheriff’s deputies, ...