Joy and inspiration are sometimes mixed with tears and emotion at the Adventist Health AIS Cancer Center’s Cancer Survivor’s Day Brunch held each year in downtown Bakersfield. It was no different Friday morning when more than 100 showed...
Rio Tinto, one of eastern Kern’s largest employers and the county’s seventh-largest contributor of property tax revenue, is looking to sell the 99-year-old mine it acquired in Boron in 1967. The Anglo-Australian multinational mining...
The Kern County grand jury completed a review of the local Safely Surrendered Baby Program, finding it is largely working as intended. The safe surrender program allows parents to safely turn over newborn infants shortly after birth. The...