Oildale News

Outside my door, the leaves are falling. The warm, warm wind will blow . This was last Monday afternoon when the wind freed what remaining leaves and sticker balls were left on the sycamore and liquidambars, and the wind chimes played with an urgency we have missed lately.

FEBRUARY 8, 2012 -- Kern County fire investigators are searching for clues to determine the cause of a house fire in Oildale, Calif.

FEBRUARY 6, 2012 -- A head-on collision in Oildale, Calif. sent a Bakersfield man through a windshield.

Homeowners of an Oildale neighborhood can breathe a sigh of relief after a man who spent an entire day terrorizing the area was taken away by sheriff's deputies.

Kern County Superior Court Commissioner Linda Etienne agreed Wednesday morning to issue a court order to preserve evidence related to the sheriff's car crash that killed 24-year-old Oildale man Daniel Hiler in December.

The case of an Oildale man struck and killed by a Sheriff's cruiser in Oildale is headed for it's first court hearing today.

A tent city that sprung up at an Oildale church has moved on to a fresh start at an east Bakersfield church, but the camp's days could still be numbered.

JANUARY 28, 2012 -- A robbery suspect who pulled a knife on a Rite Aid employee in Oildale, Calif.

What at first seemed to be a collectible doll heist for the ages now looks more like a very expensive mother-daughter spat.

Kern County sheriff's detectives said they served a search warrant in the 1200 block of Woodrow Avenue in Oildale.

Prices: Appetizers, $2.95 to $12.95; soup and salad, $3.95 to $8.95; house specialties, $6.95 to $11.45; fajitas, $8.45 to $12.95; seafood, $9.45 to $12.95; sandwiches, $6.95 to $7.95; combo plates, $7.95 to $12.95; child's plate, $5.95. Readers Len and Karen Sessions wrote to tip me off to the move of Pizza Bob's from its East Hills Mall location ... (more)

Medical marijuana shops line North Chester Avenue in Oildale. Confusion has reigned for years over who can regulate them and whether local law enforcement has the right to shut them down.

Brandy Goodwin was the first person to show up at the CalWORKS 'Welfare to Work' orientation Thursday.

Henry will be talking about wind energy and the county's new wind resources map that's been causing a flap in the Tehachapi area.

Lawrence Norman Hunt, 69, Bakersfield, Jan. 6. Funeral service 6-8 p.m. Jan. 16, Cornerstone Christian Church.

The California High-Speed Rail Authority proposes to build 520 miles of tracks between San Francisco and Los Angeles, via the central San Joaquin Valley, for electric trains traveling up to 220 mph.