Bakersfield News

Phil Rudnick, who owns a local dispute mediation company, on Saturday announced the formation of Airport Valet Bus, a locally owned and operated shuttle between Bakersfield and LAX to begin operation Dec. 19. "Bakersfield needs to have this service for the community," Rudnick said in a statement issued Saturday.

Julius Tabion tows his children and their friends down an incline in the snow near Pine Mountain Club during a family trip Sunday.

This large flock of sheep graze near Herring Road, south of town on a cloudy, cold Saturday in Kern County.

Highway 58 through the Tehachapi mountains in Kern County east of Bakersfield was reopened Sunday morning after being closed due to Friday's storm that brought rain in the central San Joaquin Valley and snow to the foothills.

Juan Velazco from the Blanton Center in Bakersfield takes his food tasting job seriously as he samples foods from vendors showing their food items for use in school cafeterias.

Police arrested Charles Griggs, 19, Gerardo Felix, 19, and Javier Campos, 19,all from Bakersfield, in connection with a shooting that left one woman injured.

Q: Will doctors and hospitals who accept health insurance from companies like Blue Shield accept insurance sold by the health insurance exchange? I've heard that Cedars-Sinai, for example, will not accept coverage from Covered California.

Columbia Elementary School sixth-grader Ben Martinez, 12, suffers from alveolar rhabdonyosarcoma, a soft tissue cancer.

They can't all be named Lucky, but 15 newborn puppies were fortunate to be alive and recovering Friday after they were abandoned in a cardboard box outside the Bakersfield SPCA overnight in freezing temperatures.

He was identified as Michael Joseph Cacopardo, who failed to report to his probation officer.

In this file photo from Monday Aug. 6, 2012, former president of South Africa Nelson Mandela, then 94, is seen at his home in Qunu, South Africa during a visit from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Orange trees are protected from a hard freeze by water sprayed on the orchards. Temperatures were cold enough at noon Friday that icicles formed from the water and freezing temperature still hang from orange trees.

Advent is the period involving the four Sundays before Christmas when Christians prepare themselves for the true meaning of the season - the birth of Jesus.

Economy: There was little surprise in the latest UCLA report on the California economy, which showed an uneven recovery across the state.

The souvenirs salesmen were hawking their wares in front of the FOX Theater and many other places Thursday evening along the annual Bakersfied Christmas Parade route.

An early morning police pursuit ends with two Bakersfield Police Department patrol cars crashing into each other in east Bakersfield.

Days after a judge in Sacramento placed another major obstacle in the way of California's proposed bullet train project, a regulator in Washington, DC, has withheld approval for a 114-mile section of the train's route.

California high-speed rail officials sought to allay concerns about the future of the project Thursday after a series of legal and regulatory rulings that appear to jeopardize some parts of the $68 billion plan.

Labor, peace, education and faith leaders in the central San Joaquin Valley reacted with sadness Thursday to the death of former South African President Nelson Mandela.

1538 Solicitor complaint in the 1300 block of Estates Drive resulted in the arrest and booking at the County Jail of Kevin Clark, 32, of Vacaville for a $50,000 warrant for CVC 23222 & CVC 14601.