Economy
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Politics, not funding, drove growth of Spain's high-speed rail
BARCELONA, SPAIN -- Money wasn't a big obstacle when leaders in Spain decided in 1986 to build a high-speed train system.
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Growers concerned about proposed water regulations
Growers and their allies are gearing up for a fight against efforts to broaden protections for surface and groundwater that could potentially hike agricultural production costs.
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Young's Marketplace on Brundage to close this week
Young's Marketplace, an independent grocery store that's a Bakersfield institution, will close at the end of the week.
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State regulators plan new rules after sinkhole death
Conditions that created a fatal sinkhole near Taft last summer "have the potential" to occur again, state oil regulators acknowledged Monday as they pointed to industry work on new rules to prevent a similar accident.
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Kern Economic Journal: Businesses, consumers optimistic
The Kern Economic Journal's latest quarterly report finds both businesses and consumers are feeling optimistic, but the feeling is tempered by continued uncertainty about the economy.
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Action Line: Who regulates the tanning industry?
Editor's note: Action Line is a weekly column from the Better Business Bureau answering consumers' questions and concerns about money and business issues.
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Amgen race pays off for hotels, restaurants
If nothing else, Bakersfield's hospitality industry now knows what cycling people like to eat.
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Kern's April jobless rate lowest so far this year
Kern County's unemployment rate dropped to 14.5 percent in April, falling from a revised 15.9 percent in March to its lowest rate of the year after several months of seasonal increases.
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Fracking meeting ends early for lack of comments
Awkward silences punctuated what was to be a listening session on hydraulic fracturing Wednesday night as the oil industry pressed for answers on upcoming regulations and state officials hosting the meeting found themselves doing much of the talking.
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Carpenter will witness birth and death of Kern Power Plant
Cliff Wright spent part of his 90th birthday at an open house last week. PG&E had scheduled the event to answer questions about the demolition of its shuttered northwest Bakersfield power plant.
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Worth noting in business: Bakersfield design firm ranks among nation's biggest, more
Processes Unlimited International Inc. has been named one of this year's top U.S. design firms by Engineering News-Record magazine.
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Oil companies agree to post fracking data
Kern County's biggest oil producers, consenting to a request by state regulators, have agreed to share information about their fracking operations by the end of June, executives with a leading industry trade group said Tuesday.
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Commercial cherry orchards decimated by bad weather
Owners of local cherry tree orchards are assessing the damage after badly timed unusual weather decimated this year's cherry crop.
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Action Line: Spell out the details in wedding vendor contracts
Editor's note: Action Line is a weekly column from the Better Business Bureau answering consumers' questions and concerns about money and business issues.
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Like to shop? Outlet at base of Grapevine under discussion
Start flexing your bargaining muscles and get that "emergencies only" credit card out of storage. If Tejon Ranch Co. succeeds, an outlet center will become a reality at the base of the Grapevine.
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UFW at 50: They toiled in the shadows for the UFW. Where are they now?
Many of the United Farm Workers of America's leaders and foot soldiers remain with the organization decades after its founding 50 years ago, but some have transitioned to other positions in business, government and advocacy.
