The 2020 Bluegrass Festival is underway at the Marriott Convention Center in downtown Bakersfield.

Bakersfield Christian High School held a rally on Thursday to celebrate the football teams first ever state championship.

The Bakersfield Police Department held a press conference on Tuesday to address the various arrests that were made related to criminal street gangs.

Jay Smith has been playing music since he was 3 years old. Today he's well known among musicians in Bakersfield. He's a regular on keyboards with Bakersfield's own Mento Buru, but his own band, the Jay Smith Group, is his priority. The band recently released two new albums. Smith sat down wi…

BC held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday for the new Vernon Valenzuela Veterans Resource Center. It’s the first building project completed with Measure J funds.

The Bakersfield Country Club neighborhood has grown into one of the metro area's most unique, beautiful and diverse communities. In the latest installment of our Where We Live series, Robert Price takes a look at the neighborhood in northeast Bakersfield.

Every day is Thanksgiving at the St. Vincent de Paul mission on Baker Street. Every day, that is, except the actual day the rest of us celebrate as Thanksgiving.

Andrea “Dre” Saavedra shows you how to make a charcuterie tray that will wow guests during the holiday season.

Don Galey, 85, is one of the last of the old school Bakersfield guys. In his 60 years running Galey’s Marine Supply he has rubbed shoulders with some of the founders of postwar Bakersfield, including police chiefs Horace Grayson and Jack Towle. He has some stories: Live commercials on Channe…

Seventy-six years after he was killed in combat and his remains were later lost, Marine Pfc. Joseph Robert Livermore came home to Bakersfield on Thursday. After arriving at LAX just before 7 a.m., Livermore was escorted to Bakersfield by Los Angeles and then Bakersfield Patriot Riders. A pro…

The Bakersfield Homeless Center finally has the game plan in place it has been seeking for seven years. The emergency shelter on East Truxtun Avenue, situated in the path of the state's bullet train project, has reached an agreement with the California High-Speed Rail Authority to acquire th…

Last Saturday, classified employees from Bakersfield, Cerro Coso and Porterville colleges gathered outside Kern Community College District Chancellor Thomas J. Burke's house to advocate for a new contract and wages.

In the latest in my series of Where We Live, Robert Price takes a look at Lakeview-Cottonwood, an area of southeast Bakersfield that for years has been linked to gang activity, poverty, and unemployment. But despite the many problems it faces, there have been improvements done to better the …

Bakersfield College Southwest opened its new, temporary campus to students this week, part of an ongoing effort to ratchet up Kern County's dismal educational attainment level.  The modest arrangement of portable buildings, situated just southwest of the CSUB campus, is near the corner of Sc…

Cafe 1600 is a culinary classroom that gives Bakersfield Adult School students a second chance in the work place. The cafe teaches students how to properly run a restaurant all while giving them valuable leadership skills, team building and confidence.

Mahatma Gandhi's grandson, Arun Gandhi, spoke to students at Robert F. Kennedy High School in Delano on Monday.

BPD Chief Lyle Martin spoke to the media Thursday morning to discuss the details on the arrest of Assistant Chief, Evan Demestihas, and how this will impact the department.

After a week of waiting, Jessica Mosley and her five children finally got to see their new home for the first time when they heard those three sweet words: "Move that bus!"

It was small for a Bakersfield College graduating class, but big in so many ways. Seventeen inmates at Kern Valley State Prison, four miles west of Delano, were handed sheepskin Wednesday afternoon, the first such prison graduation ceremony in the history of the fledgling program.

Demolition for the Rosedale home of Jessica Mosley and her five children went underway Thursday afternoon. The Bakersfield family was chosen by HGTV's hit reality TV show, "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition". John Balfanz Homes was selected to help build the Mosley's dream home. Construction is…

HGTV crews and a group of more than 100 cheering volunteers marched up to the Rosedale home of Jessica Mosley and her five children Thursday morning to deliver a major announcement: The family had been selected by hit reality TV show, "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" to receive a new home.

Garth Brooks shut down the house Thursday night at Buck Owens' Crystal Palace. The country music star performed some of his famous hit songs including 'Friends In Low Places'.

A Downey man died Sunday night after he was shot by at least one California Highway Patrol officer, Kern County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Angela Monroe said Monday, but it's not yet known if the man shot at officers. Phoenix resident Leslie Reid submitted this video.

The city is hard at work spending money raised by the local 1 percent sales tax increase passed by voters last November. On Wednesday, city officials provided a tour of the new building, located at 4646 California Ave., which is scheduled to begin a new training academy for police recruits o…