Kern County, CA

Oildale, CA

Bakersfield, CA

A lawsuit against one of Kern’s largest oil producers has become the latest twist in a years-long hazardous waste conflict involving a local oil field materials company, county officials and state regulators. The owner of Las Palmas Oil & Dehydration in northwest Bakersfield, together with its landlord M&W Properties...

Dehydrator sues CRC in long-running hazardous waste case

After failing to win bids earlier this month on 16 dilapidated properties deemed a nuisance to residents, the city of Bakersfield is considering option B: How to help out those who did buy them?. It’s a position the city has apparently never found itself in before, because as far as...

Bakersfield is coming for blighted lots, in the name of housing

Visalia, CA

Corcoran, CA

By the time Erik Hansen had a moment to sit down in a Corcoran pizza parlor on a recent afternoon, the fifth-generation farmer was tired, detached and a little defeated-looking. He talked matter-of-factly of his family’s losses so far: At least 3,000 acres are under water, some orchards will die,...

LOIS HENRY: Flooding out other farmers was ‘premeditated’ by the powerful J.G. Boswell Company, one farmer asserts

Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles County, CA

Gorman, CA

Tejon Ranch Co. said it was weighing options Monday after a Southern California judge last week struck down an environmental review at the heart of the company’s master-planned residential project near Interstate 5 by Gorman. To revive Centennial, the 19,333-unit, 12,000-acre project approved in 2019 by the Los Angeles...

Tejon undecided on next steps after Centennial ruling

Marilyn Lucille Marr, 94, Bakersfield, March 21. Funeral service, 2 p.m. Thursday, March 30, at the Main Chapel, Greenlawn Funeral Home Southwest, 2739 Panama Lane, Bakersfield, CA 93313. Greenlawn Funeral Home Southwest.

Funeral services for March 28, 2023

The Bakersfield Police Department is asking for help to find a missing 59-year-old woman who was last seen March 22 in the 600 block of Townsley Avenue. Kimberly Smartt is a Black woman who's 5 feet, 4 inches tall and weighs 145 pounds. She has black dreadlocks and brown eyes. Smartt has never before been reported missing.

Oildale resident sues Kern County over 'Tiney Oaks' homes

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