Woman killed when vehicle crashes into her disabled car

Bakersfield Police are looking for a man who fired at two officers and a member of the community who was on a ride-along early Sunday in the area of Butte and Kern streets. Neither the two officers nor the community member was struck; it's not known if the suspect, who has not been found, was hit, according to a Bakersfield Police Department news release.

The Bakersfield Police Department is asking for the public's help in finding a 16-year-old girl who is considered at-risk because of a medical condition and no history of running away. Jazell Paredez was last seen Friday in the 10800 block of Vista Del Rancho Drive. Paredez is described as Hispanic,...

An Oildale resident is suing Kern County in the latest charge in a communal resistance to the Tiney Oaks Supportive Services Village. The suit contends that the county-run project, a fully-fenced 50-cabin shelter set for a 2.89-acre stretch at 201 E. Roberts Lane in Oildale, violates zoning laws and was approved without any legally-required public notice or hearings.

The night unsettled Glen Johnson as he observed raucous behavior at a Fastrip on South Chester and Ming avenues in September 2002. Too many rival gangs clustered in the same space. As a Country Boy Crips member, Johnson understood how dangerous gang clashes could easily turn bad. His girlfriend used the restroom inside the gas station and, when she returned, he urged her to leave. Something could happen, he said he told his girlfriend.

Some call it an idea, a concept, or even a vision of something that has the potential to transform outdoor recreation around Bakersfield. But it's also a long shot, an impossible dream that maybe, just maybe, can be made real.

DELANO — Two recent notices in the Californian should be of interest to Delano area residents. One notice reported a public hearing on Monday, Feb. 6, at the Council chambers in regard to a development agreement and tentative tract map. The tract is a 40-acre parcel to be subdivided...

Kern's B3K Prosperity economic collaboration has taken another step past its origins as a cross-county working group with the addition last month of three part-time employees assigned to carry out specific job-creation strategies. Senior Project Manager Cristina Bennett, Project Manager Justin Powers and Program Coordinator Alexia Svejda joined B3K's only...

Kern County farmers tend to be optimists by nature, but it's hard to know what a good outcome would even look like this year as the almond bloom approaches. Such an oversupply has piled up that almond prices actually declined last month when a parade of storms made clear California's drought would at least ease, raising expectations for greater production at a time local growers are already losing money.