Wasco News

A Virginia congressman is asking a federal panel to reject a design for a memorial honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Washington, saying the World War II general's family objects to it.

Shawn Alvarez describes his east Bakersfield neighborhood on Plaza Street as nice, quiet and peaceful.

WASCO, Calif. - A pedestrian was pinned between a building and a Ford pickup Monday in a crash in Wasco.

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

Fredric Collins Jr., 33, Bakersfield, Jan. 21. Visitation 12:30 to 3 p.m., Rucker's Mortuary Chapel; meditation service 4 to 9 p.m. Jan.

CSUB student nurse Shigenobu Ohira runs through some diet suggestions with Jose Perla after Perla finished his health screening at Trinity United Methodist Church.

Gary Knight announced Wednesday that he would leave the council at the end of January, marking the end of an eight-year run as chief executive officer.

A Wasco Middle School is paying a steep price for a mistake made during state testing.

Some old military ammo turned up at a home in Wasco, Calif. According to the Kern County Sheriff's Office, deputies got a call around 4 p.m. on Thursday afternoon from a woman who said she found what she believed to be old World War Two artillery rounds in her dead uncle's house.

Wasco City Council members gave California's high-speed rail project a thumbs-down Tuesday night, voting 3-0 to oppose the project "as currently proposed." City Manager Alan Christensen said the resolution will be forwarded to a myriad of politicians, including state and national legislators, high-speed rail project officials, California's governor ... (more)

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.

A car chase from Wasco, Calif. to Tulare, Calif. on Thursday ended after a spike strip was deployed.