Wasco News

At 80 years young, everything is coming up roses for owner Jim Coiner. He along with his son James, operations manager, and John Mellon, general manager, run Coiner Nursery, which boasts operations in Wasco, Calif.

The California Department of Public Health has confirmed it is investigating complaints -- raised in a Contact 17 investigation -- that a local clinic implanted banned birth control devices into Kern women.

The average retail price for regular unleaded gas in Bakersfield hit $3 a gallon on Saturday, and by Monday had risen to $3.03. That's up from $2.53 a month ago, but well below last summer's peak of $4.59 on June 24, according to AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge Report.

A judge said he will rule this week on whether to give two brothers a new trial against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno because of newly discovered evidence that backs their claim that they were molested by a priest, and that the diocese did nothing about it.

Kern County fire investigators are looking into what sparked a house fire Saturday morning in Wasco.

Kelly Richers was named 2009 California State Middle Grades Principal of the Year this week by the Association of California School Administrators.

A 29-year-old Wasco man died Saturday after veering off westbound Highway 58 east of H Street in Bakersfield, going over the north embankment and striking a tree, according to the California Highway Patrol.

A huge stretch of Interstate Five is shut down at this hour because of a pile-up caused by a dust storm.

A jury says the Diocese of Fresno is not liable for 1 of its priests who molested two brothers.

The off-roader killed Saturday in eastern Kern County was Wasco resident Robert Marines, 31, officials said Sunday.

A small bus carrying the avant-garde of Kern's job creation efforts buzzed with numbers talk Thursday as it bumped along the back roads linking partly developed industrial sites north of Bakersfield.

Wasco Deputies arrest H&R Block embezzlement Suspect. This is a news release of the Kern County Sheriff's Office.

The trial involving some of California's top Catholic leaders is entering the final week in Downtown Fresno.

Efforts are under way to rename Highway 46 through Wasco. City officials said Monday that they want to rename it as the SSgt.

It happened early sunday morning at Vinny's Tavern on South Union Avenue. Deputies found 46-year old Peter Towse of Wasco, unconscious and lying on the floor with head injuries.

The number of people unemployed in the north county this time of year is staggering, but there could be some relief on the way for workers.

The Sheriff's Department is investigating a Wasco H&R Block employee after customers say the employee stole their identities to apply for tax refund loans.

Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles is scheduled to testify Tuesday in the case of 2 brothers who claim they were molested by a priest at a Central Valley church.

The price for getting drunk and killing someone on the road ranges from months to a lifetime in prison.

Jury selection resumes Monday in Fresno County Superior Court in the civil trial of two brothers who say that a Catholic priest molested them decades ago.