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…

The twin tracts of La Cresta and Alta Vista of northeast Bakersfield are everything that most of the city is not. They're hilly where most of Bakersfield is flat, curvy where most of the city is linear, breezy where most of the city is stagnant, and quirky where other neighborhoods can appea…

Gov. Gavin Newsom, speaking with reporters after a tour of the California's largest oil spill in years, withheld judgment on the incident and instead said he must balance the state's low-carbon future with the needs of communities that depend on petroleum production.

The aging scoreboard at Sam Lynn Ballpark has been acting strangely the last few years, with numbers randomly appearing, flashing and jumping across the on the board sporadically. The ballpark's current tenant, the Bakersfield Train Robbers, are looking to raise money to replace it. Tim Whee…

In this 2017 video provided by Tim Jalving, Jose Arredondo is seen golfing near his condo in Los Cabos, Baja California Sur.

When torrential rains created mudslides that devastated the shanties outside of Cabo San Lucas in September 2017, Bakersfield's Jose Arredondo — who had at least one home near the devastation — drove around distributing cash. Here, in video shot by his friend Tim Jalving, he hands $300 to a …

This video, courtesy of local resident Britt Lingo, shows a military fighter jet flying near Meadows Field. The aircraft is one of many that have been seen coming from the airport in recent days and weeks.