Keene News

In a 90-minute multi-agency attack, firefighters gained the upper hand on a potentially dangerous fire in the Hart Flat area July 1. Two alert neighbors with a shovel and garden hose saved one home, firefighters and hand crews faced a fire burning uphill, high heat, and late afternoon winds in a terrain heavily laden with grass and scrub oak.

Casey Christie / The Californian Retiring North High ag teacher, Christine Dixon works on the school farm with student Robbie Keene, right, in the grape vineyard.

Summer day camp 2009 Open Schedule: Pony Pal Hangout: Your visit includes lots of individual time with the ponies for lead line pony rides and a visits with the petting farm animals.

Keene, CA On Monday, May 25th, 2009 at approximately 3:21 P.M., a call was received by the Kern County Fire Department for a grass fire in the backyard off Tehachapi Woodford Rd in the El Rita area.

Grade level winners Stephen Bush, Olivia Belda and Acquila Maliyekkal. Sixth grade finalists Olivia Belda, Natalie Moss and Nia Brazzell.

There was a reunion of old friends in Tehachapi last Tuesday between a pair who first encountered each other 73 years ago - one was Leal Kanstein and the other was the BeeKay Theater, which his father L. J. "Leo" Kanstein had opened in 1936.

The legacy of United Farm Workers founder Cesar Chavez is alive and well in Kern County, as several recent and upcoming events show.

Cesar Chavez Elementary School at 2000 Kammerer Ave. in San Jose, Calif. on Tuesday, March 24, 2009.

A Kern County man is accused of raping four University of San Francisco students after giving them alcohol until they passed out.

Rick Keene for Senate campaign today announced that the campaign experiences a substantial lead in early fundraising for the race for the 4th District State Senate seat.

A Mojave judge refused to order one Tehachapi City Council member to stay away from another council member in a hearing Jan.

A federal judge declined to prevent the outgoing Bush administration from implementing new rules for guest agricultural workers, but one lobbyist said the uncertainty for agricultural employers may persist at ...

Some longtime Tehachapi residents pride themselves on living here before there were any stoplights.

A fish ladder should be put in at once at the new dam across Pudding Creek so that the salmon can get in the pond and go up the creek to spawn.

The Highway Patrol has closed eastbound Highway 58 at Towerline Road, closing the principal route from Bakersfield to Tehachapi.