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  • Vote on changes to customer solar program Thursday

    A vote set for Thursday in San Francisco could determine the fate of a program that has helped persuade hundreds if not thousands of Kern County homeowners and businesses to install rooftop solar panels.

  • Worth noting in business: Heat illness seminar set, more

    State Fund and Cal/OSHA Consultation are holding free local seminars in an effort to prevent heat illness during hot summer months.

  • 33 jobs up in air during Meadows Field transition

    Skywest Airlines has lost its contract to perform baggage handling and other services at Meadows Field and 15 other regional airports, a change that could affect 33 jobs in the Bakersfield area.

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    Spain's high-speed rail system offers lessons for California

    MADRID -- It's 8 a.m. at the Puerto de Atocha train station in central Madrid. Business travelers armed with cellphones and laptops, and pleasure travelers toting cameras and carry-on bags, make their way through security to board the high-speed trains that connect Spain's capital to cities across the nation.

Real Estate

  • Limited supply elevates home prices

    The median sale price of an existing single family home in the Bakersfield area rose to $145,000 in April, a 9.5 percent increase from March and up 14.3 percent from a year ago.

  • Market squeezing homebuyers

    Home shopper Dian Schneider was four houses in on a whirlwind tour of local homes for sale Friday when her real estate agent issued her a warning.

  • Bakersfield apartments filling up fast

    Lori Blattenberg didn't expect to find herself looking for an apartment on her own again.

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    Homeowners unhappy with new builder's models

    Homeowners in the northwest Bakersfield subdivision of North Pointe have resorted to erecting signs on their lawns to protest what they say is a change in neighborhood building standards that allegedly are lowering the value of their houses.

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Crisp and Cole

  • Crisp & Cole agent sentenced to 27 months

    A federal judge Monday sentenced a former sales agent with the now defunct real estate firm of Crisp, Cole & Associates to 27 months in prison for his role in a massive mortgage fraud case.

  • Lender asks to delay civil trial against Crisp, Cole, others

    A lawyer for the former Fremont Investment and Loan has asked for a delay in its civil trial against a group of people who worked for or with Crisp, Cole & Associates, a defunct Bakersfield real estate firm whose principals are under federal indictment in a mortgage fraud case.

  • Judge in Crisp & Cole case chooses October for next court date

    A federal judge in the Crisp & Cole Real Estate mortgage fraud case on Friday scheduled the next status conference for Oct. 7, agreeing with defense lawyers that several months were needed to review extensive computer evidence seized by the government.

  • Crisp & Cole defendant wants his belt back

    There are belts and then there are belts. The black leather one that a Kern County Sheriff's deputy removed from the waist of Bakersfield mortgage fraud defendant Jayson Costa was the kind you don't easily forget.