Bakersfield News

BUSHY BARRIER: Go ahead and hedge your bets that walls of green won't be going away any time soon.

The 14th Annual Kern County Teacher Recruitment Fair is scheduled to take place Saturday, April 26 from 8 a.m. to noon at the Larry E. Reider Education Center, 2000 K Street in Bakersfield.

Opponents of a proposed Islamic Center, school and mosque in west Bakersfield succeeded Tuesday in delaying the project and forcing its supporters to complete a costly Environmental Impact Report.

In a telling sign of the digital age, phone directory publisher YP is no longer delivering white pages residential listings to Sacramento and other markets in California and other states.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - A group of talented local artists are taking their talents to the ultimate level as they compete in the Hard Rock Hotel's "Global Battle of the Bands."

The couple is enduring a backlash, complete with nasty phone calls and threats to picket their Truxtun Avenue restaurant, over an anti-fracking petition they insist they never signed.

The San Jose Mercury News says that means more than more than 255,000 homeowners and businesses statewide can still use all the water they want without seeing higher bills.

Sheriff's officials say a Central California boy is ok after a gun he and other students discovered at a school bus stop discharged.

A normal morning walk to a northeast Bakersfield school bus stop took a dangerous turn Tuesday when four young boys found a loaded handgun on the ground.

A farm worker drives a tractor near a well drilling site on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014 near Pixley, Calif.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - A woman and her pet dogs were rescued from a house fire in East Bakersfield early Monday morning.

The Kern County Scripps National Spelling Bee hosted by 23ABC took place Monday at California State University Bakersfield and a competitor from Bakersfield is headed to Washington D.C. 23ABC streamed the whole entire competition live as elementary and middle school students from all over the county battled it out to see who was the best speller.

The tanker trains loaded with crude oil still rattle down the tracks at the end of the alleyway where Merle Haggard, a living legend of country music, grew up in a boxcar that his father transformed into the family home.

Born in Atlanta, Ralph Emerson Bailey, Jr., grew up in Los Angeles and moved here to Bakersfield in 1992.

REQUEST FOR LENIENCY COULD BACKFIRE ON JENNIFER CRISP: Jennifer Crisp was such a trusting wife she let her husband's employees take care of details she really should have handled herself.

Bakersfield police investigate a crash Saturday afternoon on Gosford Road, just south of Stockdale Highway, that killed David Aggio, 54, of Rohnert Park.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives raided EP Armory, in Bakersfield, California Friday, along with owner Chris Cook's home.

Thanks to photographer Brandan Gillogly, we got a great gallery of racing action from the 2014 March Meet in Bakersfield, California.

You guys know that feeling of walking across the parking lot on the way to a race? It's early morning-in our case, an absolutely beautiful day in Bakersfield, California.

It showed Saturday night at the California Interscholastic Federation state championships, as Villarreal and Fox completed spectacular unbeaten seasons with titles in back-to-back matches at Rabobank Arena.