Kernville News

According to the Kern River Ranger District, the Faireview fires have been contained.

The Kern Community Foundation has chosen five recipients of the Kern Community Weingart Funds, totaling more than $63,000. The recipients are: * Arvin Family Resource Center, $8,500 to support children's dental examinations.

URL: Code: Bike magazine is spending the week in the rugged little mountain town of Kernville, California, exploring the trails and sampling local brews such as the Just Outstanding IPA, named after the outstanding trail we rode yesterday.

In the course of routine surveillance, Fitch Ratings affirms the 'A-' rating on Kernville Union School District's , $3.3 million in general obligation bonds, series 2004A.

Those are some of the common emotions triggered by the sight of giant sequoias, the world's largest trees, and the landscape of granite domes, timberline meadows and river canyons that makes up their domain in the Sierra Nevada.

A day after getting married earlier this month, Johnny and Wendy Otero were eager to show off their wedding photos.

Woodcutting permits for the Sequoia National Forest and the Giant Sequoia National Monument are now available at Forest Service offices in Dunlap, Porterville, Springville, Lake Isabella, and Kernville.

The location for the March 23 meeting to discuss a plan for motor vehicle routes in the Sequoia National Forest has changed.

Taking your job - and life - on the road via 'workamping' By COURTENAY EDELHART, Californian staff writer cedelhart@bakersfield.com If someone asks Mike Gelinas where he lives, he'll answer, but it'll take a ...

Each year the weather during Kernville's Whiskey Flat Days is as unpredictable as a cockeyed gold miner - anything from 6 inches of snow to beautiful sunshine.

Forest Service fire crews plan to begin ignition on two prescribed burning operations located in Kernville and Riverkern.

No bomb was found, but schools in the Lake Isabella area were delayed for several hours Thursday morning after a threat was received.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called for a quick solution to the state budget crisis in his State of the State address Thursday morning.

Two local restaurants - one a long-time favorite and another a struggling newcomer - closed their doors over the holidays.

Residents in the small Kern County mountain town of Kernville are keeping their eyes peeled after a cougar wandered into the center of town on Monday.

Paul Armes of Kernville had never seen a mountain lion before. Monday morning. however, he saw one a little too close.

Casey Christie / The Californian A little snow is left over on the banks of the Kern River, north of Kernville Wednesday.

The Department of Fish & Game's decision to halt fish-stocking operations, for the time being, may not be the disaster for amateur anglers, or the businesses that serve them, that it might seem.

Snow fell in the Kern County mountains Monday morning, resulting in traffic collisions on the Grapevine, Highway 58, Frazier Mountain Park Road and Highway 178 where the four lanes begin and through Mountain ...

This snowman at Kern County Fire Station 76 in Kernville appears ready to help firefighters, as long as he stays away from the heat! Photo by Felix Adamo No chains needed for this rascal! Seventy-two year old ...