Wasco News

Four more Kern County residents died of complications of the H1N1 Flu in the last week, bringing the local death toll to 14, the Kern County Health Department reported Tuesday.

Three people were killed in a head-on crash Wednesday afternoon on Highway 46 north of Bakersfield.

The California Highway Patrol is warning about high winds and blowing dust on Interstate 5 and Highway 46 near Lost Hills, west of Wasco.

More federal stimulus money will flow to Kern County for several water-related projects, according to a Thursday press release from Gov.

The state has called off an expansion of Tehachapi's state prison to relieve overcrowding but still plans to add onto prisons in Wasco and Delano.

A Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market location in Bakersfield opens its doors for customers and the news media last year.

A third man has been charged in connection with a murder and botched robbery in Los Osos.

Sheriff's SWAT team members ended a standoff at a Wasco trailer park early Monday morning with the arrest of two stabbing suspects.

"Rhythm of the Rose." Tickets may be purchased at events that require them, or at the festival office, 700 G St.

Newly hatched honeybees in an almond orchard in Wasco, Calif. The first alarms about the sudden widespread disappearance of honeybees came in late 2006, and the phenomenon soon had a name: colony collapse disorder.

The young men are from Wasco and the young women from Fresno and for the better part of a month, the four have been living in Zumwalt Park during the day and early evening and sleeping in Tower Square or elsewhere at night.

No new parcels of Tulare County farmland will be protected under the Williamson Act after a Tulare County Board of Supervisors vote Tuesday.

The Wasco City Council has passed a resolution to rename a portion of Highway 46 through Wasco the "Staff Sergeant Larry S. Pierce Memorial Highway" in honor of the Vietnam war hero who gave his life to save 29 members of his unit.

A judge has ruled that one of two brothers who lost a priest molestation civil trial against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno this year can have a new trial.

A judge has ruled that one of two brothers who lost a priest molestation civil trial against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno this year can have a new trial.

A husband and wife are dead following a shooting in northwest Bakersfield, according to the Kern County Sheriff's Department.

A company called Printcasting is experimenting with a way to attract more advertisers and readers to print magazines while using an innovative model that allows nearly anyone to be a magazine publisher.

If you want to get involved in trying to keep kids out of gangs, there's plenty to do.

Early most mornings, you will find Delbert Williams climbing into the cockpit of his Air Tractor, snapping on a helmet and roaring down the runway at the Wasco Airport.

At 80 years young, everything is coming up roses for owner Jim Coiner. He along with his son James, operations manager, and John Mellon, general manager, run Coiner Nursery, which boasts operations in Wasco, Calif.