Cal State Bakersfield News

Mira Monte activities director Russ Shuppert checks the roll one last time before students, during graduation practice, leave the gym and head to the football stadium.

Starting Monday, more than 7,000 high school seniors in the Kern High School District, and hundreds more throughout Kern County, will start a new chapter in their young lives when they are handed high school diplomas.

They've served their country through U.S. military branches, and followed that service with the pursuit of higher education.

Even though Cal State Bakersfield's "Hotel Paradiso" is set in Paris, you won't hear any of the actors speaking with a French accent.

Cal-State Bakersfield held its third annual "Ally Rally," focusing on the acceptance of gays in our community.

The only good news Cal State Bakersfield President Horace Mitchell gave Tuesday during a budget forum on campus was that no cuts need to be made now for the 2012-13 school year.

WESTLAKE , Ohio - The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics on Monday announced its 2012 Hall of Fame class.

This time CSUB stands to lose $5.5 million in state funding next year. But that's only if voters... More>> This time CSUB stands to lose $5.5 million in state funding next year.

After being harassed by fellow students at Tehachapi High School in 2010, Seth Walsh took his life.

There are things we Catholics are not supposed to consider. Sometimes those things may take up residence in our souls, however, and we feel nudged by the Spirit to ponder them.

The Kern Economic Journal's latest quarterly report finds both businesses and consumers are feeling optimistic, but the feeling is tempered by continued uncertainty about the economy.

Their messages are clear: if cuts come again -- and everyone expects they will -- they should be made with faculty input, away from the classroom, and perhaps a little closer to administrative offices.

Kern High School District's board Wednesday morning is expected to approve the naming of a wing at East High School after a 36-year employee of KHSD who spent her career helping math students and educators.

Seven local schools have been recognized by California's business community as high-performing public schools in the state that are consistently improving academic achievement, reducing achievement gaps and helping students become academically prepared for college.

Growing up in the Los Angeles area, James White had a stable home, he said: two loving parents, two younger sisters and a younger brother, all of whom would go on to college.

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A new faculty contract is still being negotiated, but California State University employees say they want their cry for better conditions to be heard.

The 18-year-old provider of home health and hospice care is seeing a big increase in demand for its... Cal State Bakersfield was supposed to play a baseball game at Nebraska on Sunday.

Former Gunter star pitcher Brandon Pierce has become a national sensation with his "Crouching Tiger" dance moves which led to a rain delay danceoff with Cal State Bakersfield.

Friday night's baseball game between Nebraska and Cal State Bakersfield has been postponed until tomorrow due to weather in the Lincoln area.