Buttonwillow News

Two major accidents on rural Highway 58 east of Buttonwillow Saturday night left two Bakersfield men dead and a big-rig driver with major injuries.

An off-duty Kern County sheriff's deputy stopped to help a California Highway Patrol officer with a traffic accident, but he got arrested for drunken driving instead, the CHP said Monday.

The California Highway Patrol is responding a fatal head-on collision on Highway 46, just east of Highway 33.

Three adults and an infant were killed in a head-on wreck on Highway 46 near Lost Hills Friday, when one of the cars tried to pass several trucks, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Sure, it's scary. But swine flu is by no means Kern's most potent killer. Here are some other Kern County fatality figures for 2009 so far: Swine flu 2 Homicides Car accidents 76 fatalities counted by California Highway Patrol offices in Bakersfield, Fort Tejon, Mojave and Buttonwillow, including off-roading accidents 16 fatalities counted by ...

Carlsbad, California teenager Jacob Pearlman is transitioning from karts to race cars.

Map of proposed Fairmont Butte Motorsports Park road courses. Artist's rendition of what Fairmont Butte Motorsports Park will look like after it is completed.

What: The event will recognize John Tracy and others who have contributed to Kern County agriculture.

Police in Wyoming say they arrested a woman who they believe tried to bust her pit bull out of the doggie slammer.

Police in Wyoming say they arrested a woman who they believe tried to bust her pit bull out of the doggie slammer.

Police in Wyoming say they arrested a woman who they believe tried to bust her pit bull out of the doggie slammer.

Casey Christie / The Californian Allen Pierucci, owner of Julian Pierucci & Son Farms in Buttonwillow shows several teachers some finer points about growing cotton on his farm, Wedneday.

The man who police say attacked is a seven year veteran of the Marine Corps, stationed in San Diego.

Reedley police released new details late Thursday afternoon about a bizarre attack inside a home.

Reedley, CA- Reedley Police are on the scene of a shooting on the east end of town.

A Fresno County judge issued an injunction Tuesday against a Reedley gang that has been stirring up trouble in recent months in the city of 25,000. Varrio East Side Reedley gang members will be restricted from any activities within an area roughly bounded by Springfield, East, Dinuba and Buttonwillow avenues after Judge Donald Franson signed the ...

Within the next few days, close to 150 gang members in Reedley will no longer be able to hang out together.

It must have seemed like easy money. The state was delivering more water than ever to its customers, and in Kern County some of those customers sold some of it back, through a simple trade, at a higher price.

As bands of sheep make their annual spring appearance in the Tehachapi area, watched over carefully by a shepherd and some herd dogs, it is the continuation of a pastoral tradition that began here over 130 years ago.

The driver of a big rig died late Monday when he rear-ended another tractor-trailer on Interstate 5 near Buttonwillow, the California Highway Patrol said Tuesday.