Buttonwillow News

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.

From a press release issued by WERA Motorcycle Roadracing THE MONTH OF MAY IS PACKED WITH WERA RACING The month of May will offer WERA Motorcycle Roadracing across the U.S. The first weekend will have the Pirelli/WERA Sportsman at Nelson Ledges in Warren, Ohio on the 2nd & 3rd.

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.

A sign on a trailer hangs over dry, cracked mud at the edge of a farm near Buttonwillow, California.

A dust storm near Buttonwillow, California caused a massive pileup on a highway involving more than a dozen cars and trucks.

A huge stretch of Interstate Five is shut down at this hour because of a pile-up caused by a dust storm.

Kern County has 11 cities and 43 towns and their names all come from somewhere, but just one comes from a very specific tree.

FULLERTON, CA March 31, 2009: Three first-places finishes highlighted a successful start for Yokohama Tire Corporation's sponsorship of the 2009 Redline Time Attack series during the March 28-29 season-opener at Buttonwillow Raceway in central California.

Manuel Gonzalez traveled from Norco to join hundreds of people at a memorial service for Frank Bogert at Temple Isaiah in Palm Springs on Friday.

Buttonwillow, CA March 4, 2009: A little less than a week after announcing its formation Team Stargate Worlds completed its first test of the season with drivers Frankie Muniz and Simona De Silvestro.

Monday March 2nd 2009 at approximately 7:10 P.M., a call was received by the Kern County Fire Department for a commercial structure fire at Jamesco on Highway 58 in Buttonwillow.

Kern County Firefighters worked to put out a commercial outbuilding fire Monday night near Buttonwillow.

It was another wild day of weather in the Valley and the Sierra on Monday -- featuring everything from rain to snow to a sighting of a funnel cloud.

The quiet snowstorm that is blanketing Tehachapi Monday, February 9, 2009, has created the usual traffic difficulties but no major accidents as of late morning.

The building is not up to current safety codes and in the event of a major earthquake, it could come crashing down.

Headed by a new, activist chairman, the Senate agriculture committee could be facing a busy, new and, for some, uncomfortable, day.

Ken Chitwood's S2000 might look pretty, but he's not afraid to get his car dirty.

Another California-based organic liquid fertilizer supplier may be in trouble with federal and state agriculture officials.