A new food truck has parked next to Café Smitten in downtown Bakersfield, and it will be there until the end of the week. But it’s not serving cheeseburgers or mini-tacos, it’s serving fresh ideas for revitalizing the neighborhood.
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Love Automotive will host a grand opening Tuesday to celebrate the multimillion-dollar redesign of its Infiniti of Bakersfield showroom at the southeast corner of Motor City and Gasoline Alley drives.
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Melissa Hurtado claimed victory Monday in the 14th State Senate District race as her lead over incumbent Andy Vidak widened to 8 percentage points and the number of votes separating the two candidates doubled.
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At the store, I bought a loaf of Greenlee’s cinnamon bread, a sack of Pedigree for mature dogs and a bag of avocados.
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Authorities seized more than 40 pounds of drugs and four guns — including a modified AR-15 — from a southeast Bakersfield residence Monday.
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It was a Friday night and Leonardo Guerrero was in the process of drinking through roughly a case of beer when he learned a friend had been sleeping with the woman he'd been seeing the past nine years, according to court documents.Â
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The Kern County Fire Department Emergency Communication Center responded to a house fire on 1300 Langley Avenue in Ridgecrest on Saturday.Â
Bakersfield attorney Phil Ganong is due in a Santa Ana courtroom this week for a hearing regarding an alleged fraudulent billing scheme that prosecutors say bilked insurance companies out of millions of dollars.Â
The American Legion Post 26 will recognize veterans with its annual Veterans Day Parade on Monday. The parade, which starts at 10 a.m. downtown, is themed "Ninety-Nine Years of Honoring Our Veterans." Veterans Day originally started in 1919 as Armistice Day, on the first anniversary of the e…
What better way to celebrate those who have (and continue to) bravely serve our country than to take them out for a meal? For Veterans Day, a number of restaurants are offering dining deals on either Sunday (the official holiday) or Monday (when it is observed by the federal government). Thi…
Far from the bars and restaurants of downtown, in an area that mostly closes down after dark, Bakersfield's semi-official brewing district is forging a unique identity that participating business owners see as becoming a popular destination for craft beer connoisseurs and hobbyists.
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If there was one place where the moderate Republican could make a brave last stand, it was at the Metropolitan Republican Club on Manhattan's Upper East Side. New York County (Manhattan) was one of the few counties outside Ohio to prefer John Kasich over Trump in the 2016 primaries.
Why do you Republicans (notice I lump you all together) believe in the man that is the president of our country? Wednesday's press conference was the worst such meeting I have seen. After losing the House, he lies and berates, acting just plain obnoxious. Why? It's beyond me.
Well, well. If Rep. Kevin McCarthy doesn’t get the Minority Leader seat, maybe he will finally have to do some real work for his constituents. He loses use of his larger office and the duties there, which had nothing to do in helping the people back home. Now he can serve on a committee and …
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