New coaches, new players in key places and a schedule shakeup with new section rivals taking form. The 2018 season will be like none that Kern County has ever seen. Here’s why:
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NEW YORK (AP) — Aretha Franklin, the undisputed "Queen of Soul" who sang with matchless style on such classics as "Think," ''I Say a Little Prayer" and her signature song, "Respect," and stood as a cultural icon around the globe, has died at age 76 from pancreatic cancer.
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Congressman David Valadao is criticizing a civil rights organization that sent a group of protesters to his Hanford home Wednesday morning with his wife and three children inside. Valadao wasn't home at the time.
GENOA, Italy (AP) — As more bodies were pulled Wednesday from a mountain of jagged concrete and twisted steel left by a highway bridge collapse that killed 39, prosecutors focused on possible design flaws and past maintenance of the heavily used span, and politicians squabbled over blame.
Blame it all on our roots, we showed up in boots and ruined your ... wait, boots are exactly what you'd wear to this show. Unlike the black-tie affair mentioned in the song "Friends in Low Places," the concert of the same name taking place Sunday at Ovation Theatre should be a boot-scooting …
The BVarsity Live Preview Show returns on a special day on Wednesday ahead of the season opener for Bakersfield High on Thursday in Orange County against Anaheim-Servite.
If making friends as an adult is hard, doing so while moving for work a lot is that much tougher. Luckily for women with husbands in the oil industry, that's where the Association of Petroleum Wives comes in.
Sheriff's officials are asking for witnesses to come forward with possible suspect information in the death a Tehachapi woman whose body was found June 1 with a gunshot wound to the head.
For a town that has a lot of people decrying it as bereft of “things to do,” this weekend — specifically this Saturday — is shaping up to be quite the opposite.
WATCH: Stiern Middle School welcomes back students
Three psychiatrists have examined a Big Sur man charged with shooting his way into Bakersfield Heart Hospital last year. Soon there will be a fourth.
Our reporters and photographers were all over Bakersfield this morning capturing moments and scenes as students headed back to school. Here's where we were:
WATCH: Rosedale Middle School welcomes back students
WATCH: Wayside Elementary School welcomes back students
Cal State Bakersfield men's soccer was predicted to finish seventh in the 12-team Western Athletic Conference by the conference's coaches. Seattle was picked first.
Students at Discovery Elementary start the new school year.
We’re baaaaaack. In what seems like forever since I wrote one of these, which comes during the shortest summer breaks in recent memory.
After Cal State Bakersfield wrestling head coach Manny Rivera saw Eastern Michigan had cut its team, he considered reaching out to a longtime assistant he knew on the staff. Luke Smith, who spent the previous seven years at EMU, actually contacted Rivera first.
Today is the first day of school for many local students, and we want to see you celebrating the beginning of a new school year. Did you take a photo of your child with his or her new teacher? Or did your teens snap a photo of your first-day-of-school outfit? What about reuniting with your f…
A man trimming palm trees in Delano was clinging to the tree's trunk 40 feet above ground when firefighters arrived to rescue him Tuesday morning. The tree trimmer was not injured but was reportedly feeling numbness in his arms and legs and was exhausted from holding onto the tree after his …
WATCH: William B. Bimat Elementary School welcomes back students.
Roosevelt School Principal Susana Rios greets students for their first day of school.
Don't be surprised this week if you encounter new security measures as kids return to school. Several local school districts have beefed up security heading into the new year.
We're a long way from Scotland but if you're looking to raise a glass to Glasgow, there's an event for you.
Kern County Public Health wants you to talk to your children about sex.
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It was disheartening to read recent articles on the increasing cost of curbside recycling in Bakersfield. With a flurry of excitement and activism, curbside recycling was ushered in over a decade ago. The community supported this type of environmental stewardship from our leadership, and it …
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Nothing is more important to parents than their child's safety. With school starting up this week throughout metro Bakersfield and Kern County's public schools, preventing danger, especially gun attacks in schools and on children, are subjects of concern among political leaders, school distr…
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