A man whose skeletal remains were found April 19 in California City died from natural causes, the Kern County coroner’s office has found.

One man died in a shooting and one man was taken to a hospital with stab wounds after an incident Friday morning in southeast Bakersfield, according to the Bakersfield Police Department. Officers ...

The Kern County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce hosts its annual Menudo and Pozole Cook Off. Pozole and menudo made by contestants are given to judges for tasting.

Our world is lacking in the milk of human kindness these days, isn't it? Families and towns and whole countries are torn apart by disagreeing and arguing and fighting.

About "The Bakersfield Sound," Robert E. Price's authoritative history of the hard-edged style that transformed country music, is now on sale for $21.95. "The Bakersfield Sound: How A Generation ...

Employees of the State of California, Sephen Reynolds, associate engineering geologist, and Steve Newton-Reed, research program specialist, look down a collapsed portion of a mine in the area of ...

Gaslight Melodrama again requests the honor of your presence at the wedding of Billy Ray Cornhauler and Sue Ann Otis. "My Big Fat Oildale Wedding" returns to the theater for ...

Operations at the Shafter Youth Center are being indefinitely suspended next month as funds are diverted to local food banks.

Piping carbon dioxide into a greenhouse to increase crop yield is one thing, but venting it into an almond orchard in hopes of boosting production?

Reader: My first reaction to the otherwise well-intended front-page article “Our flag was still there” in Monday's Californian was frustration. But then I remembered there was a time that I ...

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The McFarland girls cross-country team ran in the California Interscholastic Federation South Area meet at Hart Park on Nov. 13, 1986, two and a half weeks after the accident that claimed ...