The co-owner of independent local retailer Russo's Books has a saying he often repeats, but never has it seemed more ...

To the uninitiated, a rebranding campaign Mission Bank undertook as part of its 25th anniversary came down to a pair of ...

Members of a local economic development coalition say they are pleased with a regional economic plan presented Monday to Gov.

Bakersfield shop owner Rik Samoylenko has no illusions about his ability to compete with the wide selection and convenience ...

A lawsuit filed this week in Kern County Superior Court has presented California's first carbon removal project with its ...

Bakersfield home sales and listings picked up in October but prices slid in what local market observer Gary Crabtree called a ...

All three panelists at a post-election recap Wednesday in downtown Bakersfield forecast potentially tumultuous times ahead, ...

Kern County again led the state in uprooting almond orchards over the past year as California pulled back the nut's overall ...

Fourth-generation Buttonwillow farmer Robert William "Bill" Tracy, appointed California's undersecretary of food and ...

A coalition of nonprofits pushing to improve local air quality sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this month alleging it has violated the Clean Air Act by failing to enforce federal ...

The phone started ringing early Thursday for Shafter resident Dean Florez, the former Democratic majority leader in the state ...

Local authorities are looking for a woman suspected of starting a fire Wednesday night that closed the Target store at Valley Plaza mall. Customers were turned away Thursday morning by a sign posted ...