Buttonwillow News

In Kern County, corporate farming operations that cover thousands of acres as far as the eye can see are a common sight.

Do you know someone you consider a real hero? If you do, now is the time to speak to the American Red Cross.

Ryan Gates won the Modified Class in the Redline Time Attack season finale and took the overall 2009 Redline Time Attack Championship at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California.

Ed note: Picking up from last month, Cheston Chiu breaks down the second part of our final Castrol Syntec Top Car story and our upward journey to the Buttonwillow Raceway for the showdown between our Nissan 350Z and our fellow competitors.

For the second year in a row, when the smoke cleared from the Super Lap Battle Finals a Hankook driver was on top of the podium.

Two major accidents on rural Highway 58 east of Buttonwillow Saturday night left two Bakersfield men dead and a big-rig driver with major injuries.

An off-duty Kern County sheriff's deputy stopped to help a California Highway Patrol officer with a traffic accident, but he got arrested for drunken driving instead, the CHP said Monday.

The California Highway Patrol is responding a fatal head-on collision on Highway 46, just east of Highway 33.

Three adults and an infant were killed in a head-on wreck on Highway 46 near Lost Hills Friday, when one of the cars tried to pass several trucks, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Sure, it's scary. But swine flu is by no means Kern's most potent killer. Here are some other Kern County fatality figures for 2009 so far: Swine flu 2 Homicides Car accidents 76 fatalities counted by California Highway Patrol offices in Bakersfield, Fort Tejon, Mojave and Buttonwillow, including off-roading accidents 16 fatalities counted by ...

Carlsbad, California teenager Jacob Pearlman is transitioning from karts to race cars.

Map of proposed Fairmont Butte Motorsports Park road courses. Artist's rendition of what Fairmont Butte Motorsports Park will look like after it is completed.

What: The event will recognize John Tracy and others who have contributed to Kern County agriculture.

Police in Wyoming say they arrested a woman who they believe tried to bust her pit bull out of the doggie slammer.

Police in Wyoming say they arrested a woman who they believe tried to bust her pit bull out of the doggie slammer.

Police in Wyoming say they arrested a woman who they believe tried to bust her pit bull out of the doggie slammer.

Casey Christie / The Californian Allen Pierucci, owner of Julian Pierucci & Son Farms in Buttonwillow shows several teachers some finer points about growing cotton on his farm, Wedneday.

The man who police say attacked is a seven year veteran of the Marine Corps, stationed in San Diego.

Reedley police released new details late Thursday afternoon about a bizarre attack inside a home.

Reedley, CA- Reedley Police are on the scene of a shooting on the east end of town.