The City of Taft is honoring its 911 dispatchers for their essential work. Last week, the Taft City Council presented the ...

An eight-hour-long standoff between a suspect and a large contingent of Kern County Sheriff's deputies ended peacefully ...

The Ford City Park splash pad opening has been delayed again. It was supposed to have a grand opening next month, but the completion date has been moved back to mid-summer, according to the Kern ...

A woman was convicted of arson and attempted murder in connection with a fire in a two-story apartment building in Ford City ...

Building directly on the federal Take It Down Act, Senator Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) announced that one of her measures to support victims and survivors of human trafficking has passed out ...

In their first competitive track meet in 17 days, the Taft Union High School Track team competed at the Lonnie Shelton Invite at Foothill HS, April 10. Taft’s last track ...

A driver was killed in a single-vehicle accident near McKittrick early Sunday morning. The California Highway Patrol said the victim, identified only as a male, was northbound on Highway 33 south of ...

Specifically, the OUTPACE in Space Act focuses on cutting outdated regulatory barriers, improving airspace access for commercial space launches, and preventing foreign adversaries like China from ...

The Taft Union HS Boys JV Tennis team pulled off four wins against a tough Cesar Chavez HS JV squad last week, then sat out a match on the schedule ...

The quake had magnitude of 3.2 at a depth of 8.0 kilometers and occurred at 7:52 a.m.

Facing Bakersfield HS, Cesar Chavez HS and Frontier HS in the Pep & Pageantry Arts Association of Central California. Pep & ...