Arvin News

Arvin City Council met for more than two hours on Friday night to discuss the future of Arvin Police Chief Tommy Tunson.

High on a steep, terraced mountainside in Malibu, with a spectacular view of the Pacific, perches the largest and probably the only commercial planting of loquats in the United States.

The Kern County Superintendent of Schools office was one of just 30 districts in California, and the only one in Kern, to be awarded thousands to combat tobacco use on campuses, the California Department of Education announced Monday.

Three candidates are positioning themselves uniquely in the battle for the vote in Kern County's Latino-majority 5th District, which stretches from rural Arvin and Lamont to southeast Bakersfield and into the heart of the county's largest city.

While the air in the Central Valley is certainly considered among the worst in the nation, residents of Porterville can breathe a little easier in knowing that on most days the air over the Orange Belt is cleaner than many other areas of the Valley.