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Oh, Bakersfield dining scene, how do we love thee? Let us count the ways. We start with Californian restaurant critic Pete Tittl sharing his must-order items, top picks for casual and fine dining and more. We also tapped the newspaper staff for their favorite local bites with great results, …
The Bakersfield Police Department is seeking the community's help in identifying and locating four suspects responsible for a theft on Dec. 8.
Virgin Galactic reaches space for the first time during its 4th powered flight from Mojave.
The Rocket Shop Cafe on 2000 S. Union Ave. has closed due to "severe vermin infestation," according to the Kern County Public Health Department.
The Bakersfield Police Department is asking the public's help in finding a robbery suspect seen on surveillance.
Cal State Bakersfield head coach Rod Barnes was not happy with Rickey Holden.
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Chavez Elementary School is one of 51 recipients of the state’s leading educational honor, the Golden Bell Award.
Construction crews are working on the $1.2 million Downtown Pedestrian Connectivity Project, which will help make downtown Bakersfield more accessible to everyone by adding 128 access ramps to current sidewalks and placing 3,615 linear feet of new sidewalk.
TJ Cox, Congressman-elect for the 21st Congressional District, paid a visit to TBC Media's webcast studio Thursday.
TJ Cox, Congressman-elect for the 21st Congressional District, paid a visit to TBC Media's webcast studio Thursday. Cox, who defeated the incumbent Republican David Valadao, in a close race that was decided only a couple of weeks ago, laid out some of his priorities in a 15-minute conversati…
I almost never write an entire column about the same restaurant twice in a calendar year but ReMix Asian Kitchen is not just any restaurant. You could argue it’s not the same restaurant it was when I visited shortly after it opened earlier this year.
At least six bomb threats were emailed to groups in Bakersfield Thursday as part of a nationwide hoax.
An employee at a business north of Valley Plaza mall was assaulted during a robbery, according to police.
A man and a woman broke into a vehicle at The Marketplace and stole items, police said.
A four-year-old effort to assess the effects of hydraulic fracturing on federal lands in Kern County and elsewhere in California has drawn 8,400 public comments, most of them from the Central Coast.
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Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo reached the blackness of space for the first time early Thursday morning during a test flight from its base in the desert outpost of Mojave, in eastern Kern County.
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Last Saturday was the Bakersfield Master Chorale’s "Messiah" concert. This is the Christmas program, but Handel’s "Messiah" has a tendency to swamp the rest of the selections like high seas might a short-walled boat.
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Colors of Christmas will light up the night at Bakersfield Christian High School tonight.
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Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting featured a legally mandated public forum on the collaboration of the Kern County Sheriff’s Office and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Hit — Look! In the streets of Bakersfield! It's a bird (sort of)! It's a new way to get around town! It's a convoy of electric scooters!
The county has no problem tacking on citizen fees for everything from dumping to traffic (“County braces for increased cost from city’s sales tax boost,” Dec. 11). I suggest they create some Sheriff Support fee. For example: an incarceration fee for arrest, a perimeter protection fee, even a…
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