Bakersfield News

Editor's Note: At nearly 80, United Farmworkers Union co-founder Dolores Huerta personifies the phrase she coined, 'Si se puede!' which President Obama borrowed and translated as 'Yes, we can!' New America Media editor Khalil Abdullah interviewed Huerta, who was honored as an extraordinary older woman at the AARP Diversity Conference in Chicago.

Righteousness has a neg. connotation. being good, fair and just isn't the same. Righteousness implies you have the best or only way.

As President Barack Obama discussed the heated topic of health care reform in Virginia today, government and health care leaders in Bakersfield came together for their own town hall meeting.

As lawmakers worked to beat the Midnight deadline to dig California out of a $24 billion hole, their own salaries ended up on the chopping block early Tuesday morning by another government body.

While 900 downtown residents were left in the dark this morning, Bakersfield High summer school students didn't let that ruin their day.

A Brampton man who's considered a modern-day Robin Hood has been convicted in the U.S. of leading a drug smuggling ring that trucked at least 36,000 kilos of cocaine from California to Toronto.

A gadget containing a small amount of radioactive material was stolen from a car sometime Thursday night or early Friday morning, according to the Bakersfield Police Department.

Felix Adamo / The Californian Leah Hernandez is as beautiful as an angel as she tries on her wedding dress in preparation for her July 10 wedding in Lake Tahoe.

Joshua Soto loved the army. And he died doing what he loved the most. The army sergeant, an infantryman by choice, was killed by a roadside bomb june 16th outside the iraqi town of Tallil.

When Josh Preston asked us to take him to the Kern County Sheriff's Department for questioning he seemed to know that he wouldn't be coming home.

Visitation services will be held Friday, June 26 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, 428 E. Kern St., Avenal.

There may be more information Wednesday on the death of a 2-year-old East Bakersfield boy whose safety had been a concern to neighbors long before his lifeless body was removed by coroner's investigators.

It's being described as Hollywood's most exclusive prostitution ring, a $50,000-a-night call girl service providing Playboy Playmates and porn stars to actors, athletes and moguls.

Virginia Fort 757-622-7382 Bakersfield, Calif. -- Wearing a stethoscope and a sexy nurse outfit , carrying a notepad to write 'prescriptions' for a vegetarian diet, and holding a sign that reads, " Bypass Heart Surgery--Go Vegan," a PETA beauty will greet patients and passersby outside Mercy Hospital in Bakersfield on Wednesday.

By DEREK TISINGER / In his May 27 Community Voices article, Bakersfield City Councilman Zack Scrivner stated that he is working to put more police officers on the street.

Bail bondsmen's free rides have ended in Bakersfield, where the police department now charges to pick up and transport fugitives awaiting trial who have skipped town.

As Justin Erbacher was sentenced to a century in prison in a headline-grabbing molestation case, another huge child abuse case was quietly unfolding in the same courtroom.

Korn's cathartic alternative metal sound positioned the group among the most popular and provocative to emerge during the post-grunge era.

Crews have made quick work of a wildfire that burned through 61 acres of brush in a rural area east of Bakersfield.

This morning, PETA sent a letter to Bakersfield Mayor Harvey Hall and the City Council urging them to enact legislation that would ban the use of bullhooks, electric prods, and other devices commonly used to inflict pain on elephants.