Taft College men's soccer team, loaded with local players, headed back to state

Bakersfield High School will commemorate its 66th year of wrestling with the induction of its second hall of fame class. The event is scheduled to start with a social hour at 5 p.m on April 15 in Liberty Hall at Hodel’s Country Dining Restaurant. Dinner is scheduled for 6 p.m., with the inductions at 7 p.m. Individual tickets are $65 with reserved tables available for $500.

The International Speedway Challenge is just the beginning of the 2023 campaign at Kern County Raceway Park. After hosting Team USA and assorted European speedway standouts for a series of races Saturday, in the Americans' return to compete on home soil for the first time since 1988, the raceway will stage a full schedule of events to commemorate its 10th anniversary season.

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.

I consider this column a public service, a place where people can come on a Sunday morning to get new restaurant ideas, where I can highlight those low-profile places like Bread & Honey that I wrote about a few weeks ago, dining spots you may not have heard of. Fortunately,...

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...

Doris Shotwell and her family can easily remember the murder sentence handed down by a Kern County Superior Court judge around 41 years ago sending Shotwell’s 18-year-old son, Cedric Struggs, to prison. They recalled those memories when Struggs, now 60, appeared in court Thursday to be resentenced after his...

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 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,...

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.

Well, Gov. Gavin Newsom (Governor Moonbeam 2.0) is after us again. While touting gun control legislation that wouldn't save one life, he used that opportunity to insult our county in general, and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in particular. The causes of mass shootings (none of which were in Kern County, by the way) have more to do with overpopulation, cultural decline and demographics than a lack of gun laws.