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The city of Bakersfield has reported that a “cyber-security incident” may have compromised the personal and financial information of those who used the city’s Click2Gov online payment processor.
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"Welcome home brothers, welcome home," said Robert Gonzalez a Vietnam era veteran as he watched the Bakersfield Vietnam Veterans of America march in the Veterans Day parade in downtown Bakersfield Monday. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Bakersfield for the annual Veterans D…
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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.
We’ve said it before, but it feels like the season just began.
At the store, I bought a loaf of Greenlee’s cinnamon bread, a sack of Pedigree for mature dogs and a bag of avocados.
LOS ANGELES — Stan Lee, the creative dynamo who revolutionized the comic book and helped make billions for Hollywood by introducing human frailties in Marvel superheroes such as Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and the Incredible Hulk, died Monday. He was 95.
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
Did you turn on the heat this weekend?
Wildfires around the state have prompted local air officials to issue a health caution for smoke impacts throughout the San Joaquin Valley.Â
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…
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.
Military strategists called it Hill 937.
The leaders were still on their way to winning in many of the too-close-to-call local races following another update of elections results over the weekend — though some saw their leads narrow slightly. As of Sunday night, Kern County Elections officials said 5,730 vote by mail ballots remain…
A fire ignited in the light grass at the dead-end of High Gun Road in Stallion Springs near Tehachapi at around 3:30 p.m. Sunday, but the Kern County Fire Department was able to gain control of the blaze and stop its progression within minutes, holding it to 20 acres.
Bakersfield College football will hit the road to play Saddleback in the Patriotic Bowl on Saturday, Nov. 17. The game will kickoff on at 5 p.m. at Mission Viejo High School.
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Bakersfield College and Cal State Bakersfield both graduated more students this year than they have in at least five years, according to data from the colleges.
The Monster Truck Night of Thrills came to Kern County Fairgrounds on Friday. The show featured monster trucks, tuff trucks, motorcycles, quad racing and more.
SANTA CLARITA — The players on the College of the Canyons sideline waved their arms up and down at the crowd. They danced and sang along to the music pumping through Cougar Stadium.
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