Shafter News

The new District covers a large area of the southern San Joaquin Valley and includes the communities of Hanford, Lemoore, Corcoran, Delano, McFarland, Shafter, Wasco, Arvin, Lamont and portions of Bakersfield.

Standing at the edge of a 100-foot cliff, Drew Arnold optimistically stares out at the blue ocean as the morning sun casts golden light across his face.

County supervisors are scheduled to vote Tuesday on whether to oppose California's high-speed rail project as currently proposed.

Delano police on Friday arrested a mother, whose 2-year-old son died last year, on charges of first-degree murder and willful cruelty to a child, and are seeking a second suspect in the child's death.

The day after Kern County Sheriff's Department deputies shot and killed 18-year-old Christian Chavez in Buttonwillow, the Sheriff's Department and the young man's family gave conflicting accounts of the event that ended in his death.

The Kern High School District may soon give aspiring school board members a better chance to run for office.

A male inmate awaiting trial died at Lerdo Prison in Shafter, Calif. According to the Kern County Sheriff's Office, on Saturday, Jan.

When Sabrina Knox comes to the Career Service Center in Bakersfield, she always logs on to the Cal-Jobs web site.

Few details are available after a Shafter, Calif. man died following an officer-involved shooting.

A Bakersfield mother charged with stabbing her baby was sentenced on Tuesday to nine months in jail and five years probation.

Wasco's city council is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a staff recommendation that it reverse itself and oppose California's high-speed rail project "as currently proposed" -- even though taking that position could hurt the city's chances of landing a lucrative train maintenance facility.