Lake Isabella News

The chairwoman of Sierra Kings District Hospital faced pickets Tuesday who asked her to resign, saying the bankrupt hospital needs new leadership.

A serial rapist in Lake Isabella. A child kidnapped in downtown Bakersfield. A woman sexually ravaged and tossed dead into a canal.

Susan BarrKern Valley Sun State Assemblymember Jean Fuller chaired the Oct. 13 Fish Hatchery Informational meeting held at the Seniors Center in Lake Isabella.

The Embree family emailed 17 News about rumors of a serial rapist on the loose in the quiet mountain town of Lake Isabella.

There has been one sexual assault recently in the Lake Isabella area, but reports of a serial rapist and murder are nothing but rumors, the Sheriff's Department said Monday morning.

The Kern County Department of Public Health announced that they have updated the H1N1 Flu vaccine clinics.

County supervisors received a troubling update on the Lake Isabella Dam Tuesday.

A nearly three-year-old case on the fatal crash that killed a Kern County sheriff's deputy may suffer yet another major delay amid startling new allegations of infighting between the Kern County District Attorney's office and its crime lab.

One of the haunts in Silver City, Taking a day trip to a haunted location in the Death Valley National Park area is a great way to learn some history and have some fun in the process.

The Kern County Sheriff's Office, Kern Valley Substation will be holding an open house on Sat., Oct.

Start: Oct 22, 2009 End: Oct 22, 2009 Time: 5:30pm Location: 20700 South St., Tehachapi, Ca 93561 The Tehachapi Mountain Democratic Club meeting will be held on Tuesday, Oct.

A doctor's report presented in Tulare County Superior Court on Thursday stated that a Kern County man accused of stabbing two Visalia hotel employees is mentally fit to stand trial.

Sequoia National Forest officials have released the Motorized Travel Management Final Environmental Impact Statement, the result of a five-year public discussion and map-making effort to develop a forest route inventory and environmental analysis for proposed additions of routes and changes on the southern portion of the forest.

Republicans Fuller Dean Haddock, psychologist Democrats Virginia McClellan-Rodriguez of Bakersfield 30th ASSEMBLY DISTRICT Republicans Gilmore Democrats Fran Florez, former Shafter city councilwoman 18TH STATE SENATE DISTRICT Republicans Fuller Democrats Carter Pope of Lake Isabella 16TH STATE SENATE DISTRICT Democrats Michael Rubio, Kern County ...

BY CHRISTINE BEDELL AND JAMES BURGER, Californian government editor, Californian staff writer cbedell@bakersfield.com, jburger@bakersfield.com HOT TOPICS: Loading Stories Bakersfield City Councilman Zack Scrivner is seriously considering running for county supervisor next year, he said Wednesday, a decision that could have implications for races at ...

The chief executive of Sierra Kings District Hospital in Reedley pleaded not guilty Tuesday to felony charges that, in her previous job, she had allowed staff at a Kern County nursing home to force psychotropic drugs on patients.

From late September 2009 through Spring 2010, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be conducting additional geotechnical work for seismic evaluations below the Auxiliary Dam, Lake Isabella, California.

The environmental analysis has been done and a permit is being finalized for the Army Corps of Engineers to start exploratory drilling and trenching to help assess the safety of the Lake Isabella auxiliary dam.

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Marijuana growers are flocking to the remote hills of Kern County. In fact, when it comes to pot farm busts, Kern County ranks near the top of the state list and has eradicated more marijuana this year than any other year on record.