Spice is nice at new spot Baba's Hot Chicken

Talk to Bakersfield old-timers and they can remember when Round Table, Shakey's and Straw Hat were the dominant pizza franchises in town, with local pizzerias like Fat-T's and Sam's Pizza Boat competing. Somewhere along the way Straw Hat faded big time, unable to compete with the giants Pizza Hut and...

DELANO — The City Council at a recent meeting approved a contract for the 2022 Albany-Stradley sump improvement project to Westberry Construction Inc., in the amount of $485 million. A $168,805 project is the 2022 Lexington-Madison 11th to 12th avenues improvement project awarded to Burtch Construction. The council also...

The California Highway Patrol is conducting a DUI and driver’s license checkpoint on starting at 7 p.m. Saturday in an unincorporated area of Bakersfield. The checkpoint is scheduled to continue until 2 a.m. Sunday.

It was never a state secret that the Stockdale Highway off-ramp from the southbound lanes of Highway 99 would someday close. But when a brief news release was dropped into the city of Bakersfield's Facebook page on Tuesday, giving just two days' notice that the busy freeway exit would be shut down permanently by 8 p.m. Thursday, local motorists seemed to come together with the same basic response.

The Bakersfield Police Department is holding a DUI and driver's license checkpoint starting at 6:30 p.m. Friday night within city limits. The checkpoint is scheduled to run until 2 a.m. Saturday.

Some say changing the mind of a government agency as big as Caltrans is like trying to turn around an aircraft carrier in mid-ocean. It's possible, but it's not done lightly.

Deputies with the Metropolitan Patrol Division of the Kern County Sheriff’s Office found 2.5 pounds of heroin and a cache of weapons during an investigation into a report of criminal threats, according to a KCSO news release. After criminal threats allegedly were made Monday in the 3100 block of...

Kern County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested eight individuals in connection with investigation into an inmate’s escape from custody. Marcos Rosales, 34, was being transported to a medical appointment in the 2900 block of F Street on Tuesday when he assaulted a transportation deputy, according to a KCSO news release.