Frazier Park News

An international team of scientists led by David Martinez-Delgado has conducted research that reveals a "stealth merger" of dwarf galaxies, where an in-falling satellite galaxy is nearly undetectable by conventional means yet has a substantial influence on its host galaxy.

A team led by University of California, Los Angeles research astronomer Michael Rich has used a unique telescope to discover a previously unknown companion to the nearby galaxy NGC 4449, which is some 12.5 million light years from Earth.

The National Weather Service predicted a new surge of rain and snow Monday as another storm moved in from the northwest.

Now is the time to catch the 24-hour flu and head to the mountains for the medical procedure commonly known as snowboarding.

Two winter storms are forecast to push through California from the Gulf of Alaska this weekend, said Carlos Molina, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Hanford Office.

Diane Duquette resigned as Kern County library director Tuesday after a month-long county investigation found she'd made personal trips using a county vehicle and gas card and during work time.