| 单词 | Bakersfield |
| 例句 | I'm going to need to take life from what I can find in the neighborhood around me in Bakersfield to landscape this place. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z As if it wasn't already bad enough on the floor of a garage on the wrong side of the tracks in Bakersfield. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Someone's left a copy of the morning edition of the Bakersfield News Gazette on the elephant-shaped metal coffee table. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Most people in Bakersfield went to the Hammer when they crashed their car or lost electricity in a heat wave and had all of their ice cream melt. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Dell was now in his mid-thirties, and while he wasn't insightful or even thoughtful, he knew that this counseling job in Bakersfield would make or break him. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z She and Jairo have been going to dinner and even to a few movies, and once to a poetry reading at Bakersfield College. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “Was it over four thousand five hundred and seventeen miles? ’Cause that would be the length of a round trip to Bakersfield from Columbus and back.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z But for the most part, the people of Bakersfield, California, are following the rules of rubbish, meaning that they are tossing their garden waste in the right direction. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “Tell the team in Bakersfield to arrest Mr. Shaffer. Have the field team in Ohio pay a visit to the brother. And let all the lawyers know about our new evidence. Mr. McQuade?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z But I guess people are a lot more open in Canada, because in Bakersfield it was just Margaret and me against the world. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z She moved closer and she saw that the book was from the Bakersfield public library and it was called Understanding Vietnamese Customs and Traditions. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z There were no natural glens in all of Bakersfield. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The late-day Bakersfield sun beats down, bouncing off from the cars and the blacktop. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The Cahuilla lived in Southern California and once thrived in Bakersfield. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I arrive at Dell's office and we pretend, as always, that nothing has changed and we don't live in the same apartment complex on the same floor of the same neighborhood of Bakersfield. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The sunlight has a way of dulling the world in Bakersfield, and I gaze out the window and everything is like a copy of an original. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z As if it wasn't already bad enough on the floor of a garage on the wrong side of the tracks in Bakersfield. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z He will pick me up from the salon and take me to Bakersfield City Hall tomorrow at ten in the morning. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z There was nothing in this program of interest and Dell had fallen asleep to it many times since he came to Bakersfield. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z And it is not an exaggeration to say that the Gardens of Glenwood is the cleanest building in all of Bakersfield. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The woman was going on and on about ancient Rome when it became clear to Mai that the only thing that mattered was in a courthouse in downtown Bakersfield. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z A woman held her phone close to his face as she said: "Can you tell us your name? Are you a student? What are you studying at Bakersfield College?" Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Stars littering an endless Bakersfield sky begin to dim. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Bakersfield is 1 30 miles from the Pacific Ocean, but twice I drove to the beach, just outside of Santa Maria, with my parents. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Recalling the different labor camps we lived in, I answered, “I don’t want to live in Selma, Visalia, Bakersfield, or Corcoran.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Mai knew, of course, that she and her brother stood out in Bakersfield. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z He then drove straight to Bakersfield College, where he picked up a brochure for the Career Pathway program, which was a continuing education opportunity for people over the age of thirty. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The next thing Roberta knew, she was being sent to the Bakersfield Imaging Center just down the street. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Because how many twelve-year-old kids in Bakersfield actually lose both parents in one afternoon? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The bus shelter in front of the school had a flowerbed with the toughest roses in Bakersfield. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Lost Hills, about 45 miles northwest of Bakersfield and populated by about 2,000 souls, was the first destination in Cornerstone's odyssey, back in 2004. Cornerstone Theater Company gives local flavors to Shakespeare 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z Merle Ronald Haggard was born in Bakersfield, Calif., on April 6, 1937, in a makeshift home that his father built from an abandoned boxcar. Merle Haggard, revered country singer of common man anthems, dies at 79 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z In the final analysis Bakersfield Mist, neatly directed by Polly Teale and cleverly designed by Tom Piper, is too slight, and a touch too pleased with itself, to be fully satisfying. Turner 'excellent' in Bakersfield Mist 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z The city of Bakersfield, Calif. emerged in the 1950s to rival Nashville as the place defining country music. How Pop and Jazz Revisited the Past in 13 Boxed Sets 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z When we meet Amber, she is living in Bakersfield and she is a manager at an Italian chain restaurant, a job she's had for the last nine years. Alison Brie on filmmaking, "back to old antics" with Danny Pudi and a possible "Community" reunion 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Along with singers Buck Owens and Wynn Stewart, Mr. Haggard typified country music’s “Bakersfield sound” of the 1960s. Merle Haggard, revered country singer of common man anthems, dies at 79 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z While Nashville eventually won country radio, at least Bakersfield never got slick. How Pop and Jazz Revisited the Past in 13 Boxed Sets 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z In 2017, Hargrove sued the city of Bakersfield, alleging excessive force and civil rights violations after she was reportedly mistaken for a male suspect. McDonald's employee charged in tampering of police officer's food 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z His story began in California, where he played bass in the band of Wynn Stewart, one of the architects of the Bakersfield sound, the rollicking counterproposition to Nashville’s slick mainstream. Merle Haggard and ‘Okie From Muskogee,’ the Hit That Helped and Hurt Him 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Chip’s contempt for Bakersfield bleeds into the scripts. Review: ‘Baskets’ Asks Just How Funny Comedy Needs to Be 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z He wrote on all four seasons of the FX comedy “Baskets,” set in Bakersfield, Calif., and he recently spent a week in Alabama, researching a film adaptation of the podcast “S-Town.” Samuel D. Hunter’s Own Private Idaho 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z In the Californian publication Boom, Marta Maretich has written a moving and delicate essay about the passage of time in another town—Bakersfield, California, where she grew up. Weekend Reading: A Tech-Free Town, Boehner’s Zen, and More 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z The short-term measure ranks metros by periodic spikes in airborne particles, and Bakersfield, Calif.; Fresno, Calif.; Pittsburgh; Los Angeles; and Birmingham, Ala., were, by this measure, found to have the country's five worst. America's Most Polluted Cities 2010-04-28T14:00:00Z A swimming pool in Bakersfield, is, after all, very few people’s idea of a dream life. No Clowning Around 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Dear Heloise: I read your column in our local paper, the Bakersfield Californian. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: Mother-in-law pushes for a large wedding 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z Police in Bakersfield have been responding to reports of menacing clowns around town, some wielding weaponry such as a gun and a machete. Clown group upset over 'American Horror Story' 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The incident occurred at a McDonald’s in Bakersfield, Calif., ABC 23 reports. McDonald's employee charged in tampering of police officer's food 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z “Bakersfield Mist” addresses its themes in bald fashion. A potential Jackson Pollock painting sparks an exaggerated class war 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z In 1964, Stewart offered Mr. Haggard one of his compositions, “Sing a Sad Song,” for his first recording on a small Bakersfield label, Tally Records. Merle Haggard, revered country singer of common man anthems, dies at 79 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z She died at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, , of complications from multiple sclerosis, the Walt Disney Co said. Mouseketeer Annette Funicello dies at 70 of complications from MS 2013-04-08T19:33:01Z After returning to Bakersfield, he played in local nightclubs, including the Blackboard, where he filled in for Mr. Owens on weekends. Red Simpson, Who Made Trucks a Vehicle for the Bakersfield Sound, Dies at 81 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z He makes his art in a small shack behind a friend’s house in Bakersfield, Calif., sleeping on an upper bunk above the stacked canvases and splattered paint. He Likes ‘Staying Under the Radar,’ but His Art Is Getting Noticed 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Her first ballet teacher was her mother; and Ms. Peck, who comes from Bakersfield, Calif., grew up choreographing at her studio. Dance? Easy. The Ballerina Tiler Peck Leaves Her Comfort Zone. 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z The Bakersfield sound grew out of a reaction to the polished and lifeless tunes coming out of Nashville. T Magazine: Origin of Country 2012-03-12T16:45:50Z Dance hall days Ethel’s Old Corral Cafe, where a band tunes up the Bakersfield sound every Sunday. T Magazine: Origin of Country 2012-03-12T16:45:50Z California fared particularly poorly on all three metrics — the four worst cities, by all three metrics, were Fresno, Visalia, Bakersfield and Los Angeles. The U.S. cities where it’s most dangerous to breathe 2014-04-30T17:28:00Z It was a drive through Bakersfield at dusk that inspired a turning point in the art of Mary Weatherford, who is exhibiting her abstract canvases, touched by bits of neon light, at David Kordansky Gallery. Essential Arts & Culture: Luminous canvases, a mirrored house and all the 'Hamilton' you can handle 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z Born in Bakersfield and raised by farmworkers who migrated between Mexico and the US, he now lives in New York and is a professor of English at Rutgers-Newark. Introducing the L.A. Times Critics-at-Large 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z It's not going to prevent them from "camping" in their van, eating cold Pop Tarts, before finally moving to Bakersfield. "Gentefied" introduces our favorite new TV family whose story deserves to be told 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Ms. Peck — who is in Bakersfield, Calif., with her family — teaches Mondays through Saturdays, with a conditioning class on Sundays. Dancers Still Need Daily Class. No Barre? Just Grab a Chair. 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Many of these growers are in the traditional citrus belt in the eastern San Joaquin Valley, from Bakersfield to Fresno, where the red soil imparts robust flavor. Mandarin Oranges, Rising Stars of the Fruit Bowl 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Bakersfield, Calif., at the center of “Killing County,” is a faded boomtown “rooted in the past” whose frontier ethos contributes to its high rate of police shootings. In the Country of True Crime 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Other California metros didn't fare much better: Bakersfield, Visalia, Fresno and Sacramento round out the five worst regions for ozone. America's Most Polluted Cities 2010-04-28T14:00:00Z Here’s looking at you, the Garlic Company in Bakersfield, Calif. She charts the toll this work takes on people’s health. Books of The Times: Tracie McMillan Writes ?The American Way of Eating? 2012-02-20T22:14:42Z The writer is an emeritus professor at California State University, Bakersfield. Sins of Commission (in Michigan) and Omission (in Spain) 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z It still locates some measure of cool within old obsessions: the late-’50s Bakersfield sound and the young Beatles. New Music: Albums From Pink, Dwight Yoakam and Aimee Mann 2012-09-17T22:14:32Z In 1957, he was arrested while trying to rob a roadhouse in Bakersfield. Postscript: Merle Haggard, 1937—2016 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Sacramento, Stockton and Bakersfield are among the worst. The Worst Cities For Auto Theft 2011-06-21T04:01:00Z Cosby's Feb. 12 concert at the Fox Theatre in Bakersfield is still scheduled, and tickets are being sold. Bill Cosby cancels New York concerts, loses Navy honor 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z His father retired as a probation officer in Bakersfield, Calif. Oscar Espino-Padron, Matthew Barragan 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z Over lunch at the Arizona Cafe, I asked Robert Price, the editorial page editor of The Bakersfield Californian, about his sense of the city. T Magazine: Origin of Country 2012-03-12T16:45:50Z Crawling by the road construction on the interstate highways around Los Angeles – and, later in the week, on Interstate 5 north of Bakersfield – Trip’s assessment seemed accurate enough. Taking a road trip this summer? Enjoy America's crumbling infrastructure 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z “Killing County” is a convincing but boilerplate retelling of the problems in Bakersfield. In the Country of True Crime 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z His website says the song is about “memories of leaving Bakersfield in the late ’70s” — Bakersfield, Calif., where he grew up. The Playlist: Bob Dylan’s New Song and Merle Haggard’s Final Recording 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z At California State University in Bakersfield, where he earned his bachelor’s degree, he studied art history and worked in the children’s center. He Likes ‘Staying Under the Radar,’ but His Art Is Getting Noticed 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Hernandez, they said, was a nursing student from Bakersfield, Calif., who — all the way back in 1966 — got the idea that disinfecting alcohol could be combined with gel to create water-free and portable cleanliness. The power of Purell compels you! 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Her band’s raucous and rollicking attacks paved the way for the rock and roll to come, as well as country’s rock-and-roll-influenced Bakersfield Sound. Ken Burns’s Delightful “Country Music” Gets the Big Things Mostly Right 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z According to statistics from the FBI's findings in its preliminary 2009 Crime Report, Bakersfield, Fresno, Oakland and Stockton had some of the highest violent crime rates in the country last year. Cities With The Most Stolen Cars 2010-05-17T04:01:00Z She grows up with relatives in Bakersfield, Calif., and becomes an auto mechanic just like Uncle Jack. A Novel About the Fate of a Piano — and the Dreams It Embodies 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Punjabi Dhaba, along with the city’s Sikh temples and Indian grocery stories, points to the influence of a more recent wave of immigration to Bakersfield. A Taste of Home for California’s Punjabi Truck Drivers 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z But when a Facebook user named Matty Roberts from Bakersfield, California, invited people to run into Area 51 on foot in a large group “to see them aliens,” the Air Force cautioned against it. Tiny Nevada town near secretive Area 51 braces for alien hunters 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z He was a wildly versatile singer, songwriter and performer, with an affinity for a variety of styles — outlaw country, ballads, the Bakersfield sound, Western swing, jazz and more. Merle Haggard and ‘Okie From Muskogee,’ the Hit That Helped and Hurt Him 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Nashville of the West, they used to call Bakersfield. T Magazine: Origin of Country 2012-03-12T16:45:50Z When Menzel finally arrived at the Bakersfield bus station at 6 a.m. that day in February 2014, her mother and stepfather were there waiting. A long and winding road: Kicking heroin in an opioid “treatment desert” 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Until 2006, he was a platoon sergeant in the California National Guard, also in Bakersfield. Casey Hernandez, Paul Rosen 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z But, again, Head has Stateside cachet, so he can play the economy-deflating dead sheep and still be recognised in multiplexes from Brooklyn to Bakersfield. Meryl Streep playing Margaret Thatcher ? what's not to like? 2011-02-08T20:30:31Z They toured the East Coast and Midwest and honed original songs that drew from country music’s “Bakersfield” sound and brawling post-punk. Yo La Tengo: Indie rock’s standard-bearer is still changing the formula, 30 years in 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z The woman was not at the Bakersfield home when the flash mob arrived, its satellite TV trucks filling her quiet Bakersfield street and spilling onto another one. Schwarzenegger child report spurs media frenzy 2011-05-18T22:15:23Z They exist “somewhere between Bakersfield, California, and Jacksonville, Florida,” we are told, “spiritually nearer the former and geographically nearer the latter.” Books of The Times: Padgett Powell’s New Novel, ‘You & Me’ 2012-08-14T12:00:00Z Mr. Haggard recalled in his 1999 memoir, “Merle Haggard’s My House of Memories,” written with Tom Carter, that he had been spotted earlier that day in Bakersfield wearing a propeller beanie as a disguise. Merle Haggard, revered country singer of common man anthems, dies at 79 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z But even as Fairman was suggesting that, the city of Bakersfield was declaring a local emergency in response to the coronavirus. The power of Purell compels you! 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z In “Bakersfield Mist,” Turner plays Maude, an unemployed bartender convinced that the painting she bought for a few bucks is a priceless Jackson Pollock. Kathleen Turner seeks satisfaction on London stage 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Ms. Brown is an owner of Sonder, a restaurant in Bakersfield, Calif., that helped Operation BBQ Relief develop the pilot program it brought to Pennsylvania. To Fight Waste and Hunger, Food Banks Start Cooking 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z He was also happy with his most recent day job, teaching art to young children at Franklin Elementary School in Bakersfield. He Likes ‘Staying Under the Radar,’ but His Art Is Getting Noticed 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z The mellow balladeer onstage at the Bakersfield Rock & Country Music & Art Festival a few weeks ago was in fact Johnson. 'Go-to' L.A. lawyer says Hollywood studios are shortchanging his clients 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Maretich writes about the experience of going back to Bakersfield to clean out her parents’ old house after many years of living in Europe. Weekend Reading: A Tech-Free Town, Boehner’s Zen, and More 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z Still, he takes his craft very seriously, and when he is forced to move back home to Bakersfield, he assiduously attempts to find a well-paying gig that lets him pursue his art. Zach Galifianakis’ sad-clown comedy “Baskets” isn’t funny — but its oddball charm works in mysterious ways 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Bakersfield Mist Remount of a 2011 production of Stephen Sach’s comedy about a woman who discovers what may be an authentic Jackson Pollock painting at a local thrift shop; an L.A. L.A. theater openings, Nov. 13-20: 'Letter to a Man' and more 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z On a warm afternoon in Bakersfield, Trevor McShane clasped the microphone and introduced an original composition called "There's No Me and You." 'Go-to' L.A. lawyer says Hollywood studios are shortchanging his clients 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z The Bakersfield paintings were shown in art spaces in Los Angeles and New York. With bold brush strokes and luminous neon, L.A. painter Mary Weatherford comes into her own 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Justin was born in Salt Lake City, where his parents played in their own band, and “everything they did was Bakersfield.” T Magazine: Origin of Country 2012-03-12T16:45:50Z On Sunday, he’ll go to ground zero of the California country sound: Bakersfield, for a performance at the Bakersfield Museum of Art’s Passing Through Series. Jim Lauderdale returns to SoCal for weekend solo acoustic shows 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Buck Owens put the Bakersfield sound on the map in the sixties, shaking up the business with its honky-tonk hardheadedness. The Big City Is Good for Country Music 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z "The Art Laboe Connection" originates from his studios in Palm Springs and airs on 12 other radio stations, including in Barstow, Bakersfield, Las Vegas, Phoenix and an outlet Laboe owns in Fresno. Get those dedications ready: Art Laboe is coming back to L.A. radio 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z “At that point I wasn’t so interested in ballet,” said Ms. Peck, who grew up in Bakersfield, Calif., where her mother ran a dance school. A Full-Circle Mentor Moment 2011-01-23T02:30:15Z The canceled concerts include the entire run of his “Million Dollar Piano” show at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, as well as a performance in Bakersfield, Calif., on May 6. Elton John Cancels Concerts After ‘Potentially Deadly’ Infection 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z The music of Haggard and Owens exemplifies country music's "Bakersfield Sound." Merle Haggard honored by Cal State Bakersfield 2013-06-14T20:02:08Z She was raised near Bakersfield, Calif., where she listened to the Opry over the radio. Jean Shepard, country singer and Opry stalwart, dies at 82 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z He moved to Bakersfield, Calif., to work as a disc jockey in 1947. Velvet-Voiced Ferlin Husky Dies at 85 2011-03-18T04:35:42Z The pilot project, which began testing in scattered Western outlets two years ago, recently completed expansion to all McDonald's California outlets from San Diego north to Bakersfield. McDonald's asks, TV with that? New channel on menu 2012-09-26T19:04:12Z This is the mix that pervades Bakersfield today — the glossy music hall that civic boosters plaster on their brochures and the dives where country purists take shelter. T Magazine: Origin of Country 2012-03-12T16:45:50Z That peace was disrupted Wednesday as the media descended on the Bakersfield area after unconfirmed reports flashed across the Internet that former Gov. Schwarzenegger child report spurs media frenzy 2011-05-19T10:48:27Z Law enforcement leaders in Bakersfield in the central valley pushed a plan to throw homeless people in jail for misdemeanor offenses. ‘They’ve turned their backs on us’: California's homeless crisis grows in numbers and violence 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Fashion designer Lauren Semar shared a TikTok video of her discovery in late September, and she couldn’t help but admire the "guys" her grandma appears to have dated in Bakersfield, California. Granddaughter goes viral for remembering grandma's 1948 dating life 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z Six months later, in Bakersfield, he is staying at a motel while Penelope lives across town at a slightly nicer place with a pool. No Clowning Around 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z The bride’s father was a Republican political consultant in Bakersfield. Work Colleagues, Friends, Then Something More 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z But there’s almost nothing complex about this album — there are blues, soul, maybe a hint of Bakersfield country on a cover of J. J. Cale’s “Call Me the Breeze,” but not much more. Critic’s Notebook: John Mayer’s New Album Is ‘Paradise Valley’ 2013-08-20T22:04:17Z Balmeet Singh is neither a Muslim nor an immigrant, but a member of Bakersfield’s large Sikh community and sports the full beard and distinctive turban that is mandatory dress for religiously observant Sikh men. The Golden State of hate: “I don’t need to serve you anymore. We’re trying to make America great again” 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z During the final stretch of the election campaign, the 31-year-old Bakersfield realtor got a first-hand taste of the fear and public humiliation that an increasing number of Californians are experiencing in the age of Trump. The Golden State of hate: “I don’t need to serve you anymore. We’re trying to make America great again” 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z "Baskets" revolves around a Bakersfield man who dares to follow his dream of becoming a professional clown. Zach Galifianakis carries 'Baskets' comedy to FX 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z There’s even a specific strain of music named for the place: the Bakersfield sound, highlighted last year in a Volkswagen ad set to the 1962 Wynn Stewart song “Another Day, Another Dollar.” T Magazine: Origin of Country 2012-03-12T16:45:50Z There’s passion in her every sniff, laugh and curl of the lip in “Bakersfield Mist,” at the Duchess Theater through Aug. 30. Theater Review: ‘Medea,’ Kathleen Turner and Noël Coward on London Stages 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Haggard was presented an honorary doctorate Friday by California State University, Bakersfield. Merle Haggard honored by Cal State Bakersfield 2013-06-14T20:02:08Z In the Bakersfield hard-country scene of the 1960s Buck Owens was clearly the boss: bandleader, singer, songwriter, publisher, celebrity. Boxed Sets of CDs and DVDs for 2012; Critics’ Picks 2012-11-22T21:24:13Z “I want my little cousins who live in, like, the hood of Bakersfield with their stolen passwords to be able to watch it,” he said. ‘Gentefied’ Asks, Can a Show About Gentrification Be Funny? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Memories came rushing back of the fun he had in childhood on his family’s annual vacations to the park from their home in Bakersfield, about three hours away. For a Major Disney Collector, It’s the Magic Hour 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z On his release from prison, Mr. Haggard performed in Bakersfield and Las Vegas clubs, eventually joining established singers Wynn Stewart and Buck Owens as a bassist and opening singer. Merle Haggard, revered country singer of common man anthems, dies at 79 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Her family told television program "Extra" that Funicello died in hospital in Bakersfield, California, while in a coma due to suffering from multiple sclerosis, which was diagnosed in 1987. Disney child star Annette Funicello dies at age 70 2013-04-08T17:22:02Z She left New York and went home to Bakersfield to heal and to worry. Tiler Peck, spinning in new directions with the Kennedy Center’s ‘Little Dancer’ Certainly Bakersfield is not the only town in the world where you can find juxtapositions that seem almost post-apocalyptic. T Magazine: Origin of Country 2012-03-12T16:45:50Z “You just knew this is something different,” said Vikki Cruz, a former curator at the Bakersfield Museum, who gave Landers his first job in the art world, helping with installations. He Likes ‘Staying Under the Radar,’ but His Art Is Getting Noticed 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Once out of school, he got a job working as an educator at the Bakersfield Museum of Art. He Likes ‘Staying Under the Radar,’ but His Art Is Getting Noticed 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z As portrayed by Michael Russotto in Olney Theatre Center’s “Bakersfield Mist,” the art expert approaches a canvas with an absorption that is positively calisthenic. A potential Jackson Pollock painting sparks an exaggerated class war 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z On his Facebook page, Mr. Haggard wrote, “He played a huge part in the Bakersfield sound.” Red Simpson, Who Made Trucks a Vehicle for the Bakersfield Sound, Dies at 81 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z His profile as a playwright was raised with "Bakersfield Mist," which received a London production last year starring Kathleen Turner, but he's been writing plays all along. Fountain Theatre celebrates its first 25 years as a vital, intimate L.A. stage 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z "The legal business is fraught with tension and conflict, and this is not," he said after performing nearly a dozen songs in Bakersfield. 'Go-to' L.A. lawyer says Hollywood studios are shortchanging his clients 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z In Los Angeles and Bakersfield, Calif., Mr. Paxton recruited talent, opened studios, produced records for his own labels and promoted them. Gary S. Paxton, Whose Life of Extremes Brimmed With Music, Dies at 77 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Inspired by true events, Bakersfield Mist - by Stephen Sachs - opened on Wednesday night at the Duchess Theatre. Turner 'excellent' in Bakersfield Mist 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Brie stars as Amber, the manager of the Bakersfield franchise of an Olive Garden-style chain restaurant called Tuscan Grove, who is offered the chance to spend a week at the chain’s training institute in Italy. ‘Spin Me Round,’ ‘Small Town Crime’ and More Streaming Gems 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Last year, he agreed, traveling within California to a center in Bakersfield and one near Fresno. Lights. Camera. Senior Center? 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z Heather Menzel squirmed in her seat, unable to sleep on the Greyhound bus as it rolled through the early morning darkness toward Bakersfield, in California’s Central Valley. A long and winding road: Kicking heroin in an opioid “treatment desert” 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z They say the Bakersfield, Calif., native then fled and was arrested several blocks away. Woman in Hugh Jackman NYC stalking case indicted 2013-04-19T22:37:08Z “He wrote more than 30 songs that Buck recorded,” the music historian Scott B. Bomar told The Bakersfield Californian. Red Simpson, Who Made Trucks a Vehicle for the Bakersfield Sound, Dies at 81 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z But in Bakersfield it’s all framed by music and history. T Magazine: Origin of Country 2012-03-12T16:45:50Z After his apprehension, Mr. Haggard simply walked out of the Bakersfield City Jail. Merle Haggard, revered country singer of common man anthems, dies at 79 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z The bride’s mother retired as a secretary at Fremont Elementary School in Bakersfield. Casey Hernandez, Paul Rosen 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z In “Uncle Dad,” an episode from Season 1, Christine gives a tour of Bakersfield to Penelope, a Frenchwoman whose interest in marrying Chip goes only as far as a green card. Why Christine Baskets Was One of TV’s Greatest Characters 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z The viewer feels no sympathy for Chip, while Galifianakis’s flair for the absurd and postmodern slapstick actually works against the verisimilitude and utterly banal Bakersfield feeling that the show works hard to create. How much Zach Galifianakis is too much? ‘Baskets’ pushes the limits. 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z The Syracuse, N.Y., company serves about 65,000 subscribers in Bakersfield, as well as fast-growing Florida markets of Tampa and Orlando, and portions of Detroit, Indianapolis and Birmingham, Ala. Charter Communications to buy Bright House Networks in $10.4-billion deal 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z AAA projects Wednesday afternoon and evening will be the busiest times for Southern California highways, with the 5 Freeway between Los Angeles and Bakersfield the most impacted roadway. Thanksgiving travel will be at record-breaking levels: 9 common-sense tips can keep you sane 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z Even Collier was limited in practice this week after banging knees in USC’s win over Cal State Bakersfield last Thursday, and he didn’t practice until a short session on Monday. Shorthanded No. 16 USC falls at home to veteran UC Irvine 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z The Bakersfield Republican relied on Democratic votes to suspend the nation’s debt limit in May and to stave off a government shutdown in September. News Analysis: Mike Johnson just did the same thing that cost Kevin McCarthy his job 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z Durham has been a California corrections officer for 25 years, much of it in the remote reaches of Tehachapi, east of Bakersfield. California prison guards are dying too young. How Norway (yes, Norway) can help 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Conservation groups sued to try to prevent the Kern River from running dry in Bakersfield. California's new 'right to repair' law is embraced by recyclers 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z The differences between his home of Bakersfield and the rest of the state are not as vast as the differences between California and the Deep South. Why the fall of Kevin McCarthy leaves California Republicans in a tough spot 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z And the poll was conducted even before weeks of leaderless chaos in the House following the ouster of Bakersfield Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker. Column: A lot of Californians loathe both the Democratic and Republican parties 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Environmental activists in Bakersfield have won an initial victory in their legal fight to keep water flowing in the Kern River, which for many years was reduced to a dry, sandy riverbed. A river runs through Bakersfield? Judge rules the Kern River must be allowed to flow 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z The House GOP spent more than three weeks without a leader after eight Republicans, led by Florida’s Matt Gaetz, pushed McCarthy of Bakersfield out of the speaker’s chair on Oct. Louisiana's Mike Johnson replaces Kevin McCarthy as House speaker 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z “This is so wrong,” said Stewart, a physician from Bakersfield, Calif. “They canceled the flight, I missed my cruise — and I am out $16,000!” Planning a cruise? Don’t overlook booking flight tickets 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z From this view, Tel Aviv would be closer than Bakersfield. How big are Israel and Gaza? Smaller than you might think 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Earlier this year, methane leaked from an idle well that also spewed petroleum onto crops and livestock at a farm in Bakersfield back in February. California lets companies keep "dangerous" oil wells unplugged forever 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Some of the water is used in Bakersfield, but much of it goes to supply agriculture. A river runs through Bakersfield? Judge rules the Kern River must be allowed to flow 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z All of the lawmakers who voted against Jordan, a right-wing firebrand, backed more traditional Republicans, including former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana. Jim Jordan loses second vote for House speaker 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z The four were booked into the Kern County-Lerdo Justice Facility in Bakersfield. Fully loaded pizza, topped with semiautomatic gun, leads to four arrests 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z Replacing the Bakersfield Republican with Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan would be so much worse. Opinion: Jim Jordan should never be House speaker. Here's why 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z Between selfies, they talk about Las Vegas and about the fentanyl crisis; one guy offers Jelly Roll an impromptu lesson on the role Buck Owens and Merle Haggard played in Bakersfield’s musical history. How Jelly Roll overcame addiction and prison to become the new (tattooed) face of country 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z For years, so much water has been routed into canals and delivered to farms that the river has usually disappeared on the northeast side of Bakersfield, leaving miles of dry riverbed in the city. A river runs through Bakersfield? Judge rules the Kern River must be allowed to flow 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z In California Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s hometown of Bakersfield, supporters cursed the scorched-earth politics in Washington that cost him his job as speaker of the House. 'Flying syringes' and conspiracies: The far-right battle for a mosquito control board 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z Ms. Haas, a child support specialist and political independent, said that the Bakersfield where she was raising her 13-year-old daughter was more diverse and culturally expansive than the Bakersfield she knew as a girl. In Kevin McCarthy’s Hometown, Reflections on His Sudden Fall 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z Others see him walking his dogs or know his wife, whom McCarthy met at Bakersfield High. 'Evil,' 'delusional,' 'Benedict Arnold': In Kevin McCarthy's Bakersfield, Matt Gaetz draws ire 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z I’ll refrain, however, from solely piling on the Republican from Bakersfield who’s now, involuntarily, the former speaker of the House, the first in U.S. history to be voted out of the job. Opinion: McCarthy flopped, but blame the chaos on the entire Republican Party 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z Environmental groups are suing Bakersfield, demanding that the long-dry Kern River be allowed to flow through the city once again. A river runs through Bakersfield? Judge rules the Kern River must be allowed to flow 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z As a result, the Bakersfield Republican has ended up the proverbial man without a country, or in his case, a sustaining constituency. Column: McCarthy's fall was sudden, but a long time coming 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z A few hours after the House voted, 216 to 210, to declare the speakership vacant, with eight Republicans deserting McCarthy, the longtime congressman from Bakersfield announced he would not seek reelection to the speaker’s office. News Analysis: California knows earthquakes. This week, a temblor reshaped the state’s politics 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z “He grew up in Kern County, and he knows every corner of it,” said Greg Perrone, president of the Greater Bakersfield Republican Assembly, a conservative group. 'Evil,' 'delusional,' 'Benedict Arnold': In Kevin McCarthy's Bakersfield, Matt Gaetz draws ire 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z And without the Bakersfield Republican in the speaker’s chair, California, which lost its senior senator just last week, could see its power in Congress diminished even further. Kevin McCarthy could lose the speakership this afternoon 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z Damian said she thinks it’s time for more discussion in the community about environmental restoration, public access, recreation opportunities and how Bakersfield can flourish around its newly flowing river. A river runs through Bakersfield? Judge rules the Kern River must be allowed to flow 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Hard-line Republicans joined with Democrats to remove the Bakersfield Republican from the speaker’s chair. Column: McCarthy's fall was sudden, but a long time coming 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z He has said the Bakersfield Republican had betrayed the GOP by reaching a deal with Democrats over the weekend to avert — for now — a government shutdown. Matt Gaetz moves to oust Kevin McCarthy from speakership 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z The three friends at lunch in Bakersfield on Tuesday wrangled over the question of blame, as well as the direction of the Republican Party. 'Evil,' 'delusional,' 'Benedict Arnold': In Kevin McCarthy's Bakersfield, Matt Gaetz draws ire 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z Her mother landed in Bakersfield — a place unfamiliar to Jackson — after being priced out of Los Angeles. Grief has its own abstract language. Tomashi Jackson shows you how 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z The river has continued flowing through Bakersfield, and fish have been swimming in the currents. A river runs through Bakersfield? Judge rules the Kern River must be allowed to flow 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z With locations in Palo Alto, San Francisco and Bakersfield, Brownstone Shared Housing has converted two homes and an office space into dwellings for dozens of people, with rents ranging from $500 to $900 per month. Can't afford California? Try living in a tiny sleeping pod. All 4 feet of it 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z For more than a decade, the staff and students at Lakeside School in Bakersfield have been almost entirely reliant on bottled water. 'A ticking time bomb': Why California can't provide safe drinking water to all its residents 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z McCarthy, who grew up in Bakersfield, won his last election by more than 34 points and has built up decades of goodwill locally. 'Evil,' 'delusional,' 'Benedict Arnold': In Kevin McCarthy's Bakersfield, Matt Gaetz draws ire 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z And the tree must have been in her backyard in Bakersfield. Grief has its own abstract language. Tomashi Jackson shows you how 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z The court’s order does not affect Bakersfield’s water supplies or deliveries of drinking water. A river runs through Bakersfield? Judge rules the Kern River must be allowed to flow 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z To be more exact, the company spotted high levels of methane coming from a place near Bakersfield, California. News Roundup: New Mexico Wildfires, New Zealand Reopens, & Cow Burps 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z The school district has tried a variety of solutions, including an attempt to have its water system join Bakersfield’s municipal system. 'A ticking time bomb': Why California can't provide safe drinking water to all its residents 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z The rare GOP triumph was led by a tenacious Bakersfield conservative, Sen. Shannon Grove, whose cause was right. Column: A rare win for Republicans, triumph for labor and dilemma for Newsom 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z “SB 14 will serve to protect future generations by stopping people from engaging in this horrific crime,” said state Sen. Shannon Grove, the Bakersfield Republican who wrote the bill. California lawmakers send Gov. Newsom child sex trafficking bill that divided Democrats 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z In Bakersfield, residents have banded together to campaign for keeping water in the Kern River, and have attended recent court hearings. A river runs through Bakersfield? Judge rules the Kern River must be allowed to flow 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Later that night, unable to sleep, she’ll email to tell me what she’s discovered: Her grade school in Bakersfield petitioned to have the school’s name changed to honor the fallen heroine. Betty Ong, hero of 9/11, unsung no longer | Opinion 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z “I used the water for many years, and I don’t know if there will be future health risks,” said Martinez, 64, who moved to the rural, unincorporated community near downtown Bakersfield about 30 years ago. 'A ticking time bomb': Why California can't provide safe drinking water to all its residents 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z State Sen. Shannon Grove, a Republican from Bakersfield, said she didn’t think other states would agree to that. California courts may weigh acceptance of child’s gender identity in custody cases 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z “This bill targets Hindus and east Indians,” said state Sen. Shannon Grove, a Republican from Bakersfield who voted against the bill on Tuesday. California lawmakers vote to become first state to ban caste-based discrimination 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z At a Rite Aid in Bakersfield, a pharmacist typed the wrong instructions on a prescription for anastrozole, a hormonal treatment for breast cancer. California pharmacies are making millions of mistakes. They’re fighting to keep that secret 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z The Bakersfield, Calif., product impressed this spring after enrolling only, but was suspended for much of preseason practices due to a violation of team rules. Diagnosing how UW’s running game can improve after struggling against Boise State 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z Since 2008, the water system in El Adobe, on the outskirts of Bakersfield, has exceeded arsenic standards. 'A ticking time bomb': Why California can't provide safe drinking water to all its residents 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z Saturday of a badly damaged pickup in a ravine at the base of a steep hill near Stallion Springs, southeast of Bakersfield. Driver crashed in ravine, was 'immobilized.' Five days later, rescuers arrived 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z Jackson is part of Unity K-9 Express Rescue, an all-volunteer animal rescue that fosters puppies and dogs who are sick and injured while arranging for permanent placements somewhere away from dog-saturated Bakersfield. ‘Despair solves nothing’: How pilots in tiny planes are saving dogs from death 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z Bukle repeatedly told ICE agents that he was a U.S. citizen while detained for 36 days at Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center in Bakersfield before an immigration attorney intervened and secured his release. Records show California prisons are reporting U.S. citizens to ICE, ACLU says 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z According to AAA, drivers headed out of Los Angeles toward Bakersfield on Interstate 5 should expect significant delays starting Wednesday afternoon. California gas prices are soaring as Labor Day weekend nears 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z It wasn’t long before the Bakersfield teen was attempting to design his own collectible card games. 'Disney Lorcana' aims to shake up the trading card game space 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z The area potentially affected by heavy rainfall could stretch from Bakersfield, California, to Yuma, Arizona, as well as some parts of southern Nevada. Hilary rapidly grows to Category 4 hurricane off Mexico and could bring heavy rain to US Southwest 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z It’s 9 a.m. in late July at Meadows Field airport in Bakersfield, and already it’s pushing 90 degrees. ‘Despair solves nothing’: How pilots in tiny planes are saving dogs from death 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z A wider area between Bakersfield, California and Tucson, Arizona could also see rain. Hurricane Hilary forms off Mexico’s Pacific coast and could bring rain to US Southwest 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z This session, the Bakersfield Republican is the lead sponsor of just five measures, four of which have already passed the lower chamber. Kevin McCarthy has a bill to save the sequoias, but some environmental groups aren't into it 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z Left unsaid, however, was the reason national and state GOP chieftains, including House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield, need to press their supporters to cast their ballots early, as they historically did until 2020. GOP leaders promote mail voting despite Trump calling it a scam 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a Bakersfield Republican who is well aware of his party’s challenges in California, has floated the idea. Republicans are talking up the possibility of impeaching Biden. Is it what voters want to hear? 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z She’s in Bakersfield because California has a huge unwanted pet crisis, and Bakersfield feels like the epicenter. ‘Despair solves nothing’: How pilots in tiny planes are saving dogs from death 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z Harvick, who is from Bakersfield, California, made the most of his opportunity two-plus decades ago when he won his third start. Kevin Harvick makes a last run at Michigan, aiming to secure spot in NASCAR playoffs 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z She spent 14 years as an assistant at UNLV, Cal State Bakersfield, Grand Canyon and Arizona State before joining the Mercury last year. Storm’s Noelle Quinn set to face best friend in Mercury coach Nikki Blue 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z Bakersfield has seen 15 days of triple-digit temperatures this July, with a 10-day streak ending Tuesday when it dropped to 99 degrees. Dangers worsen as long heat wave grips Southwest without relent 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z The police pursuit started near Bakersfield and ended in a brush fire in Santa Clarita. Fast-growing brush fire erupts in Santa Clarita Valley as firefighters battle multiple blazes 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z Bakersfield’s Animal Care Center shelter is a case in point. ‘Despair solves nothing’: How pilots in tiny planes are saving dogs from death 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z Police officers tried to pull over a white vehicle near Bakersfield and the pursuit made its way south into Los Angeles County, according to California Highway Patrol Officer Alec Pereyda. Police chase ends with a crash and a small brush fire on 5 Freeway in Santa Clarita 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from Bakersfield, last week started a bipartisan movie night in the Capitol for members of Congress. Corny or cute? California lawmakers use 'Barbie' for political points 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z Swaths of Central and Northern California were also expected to see dangerous heat Sunday, with temperatures 100 degrees or higher forecast for an area stretching from Bakersfield up to Redding. California forecasters warn of dangerous heat and isolated thunderstorms 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z The pursuit started near Bakersfield and made its way south into Los Angeles County, according to California Highway Patrol Officer Alec Pereyda. Fast-growing brush fire erupts in Santa Clarita Valley as firefighters battle multiple blazes 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z A mother and her pups arrive from the shelter to Bakersfield Jet Center where they will be flown to Whiteman Airport and transferred into the care of the Labelle Foundation. ‘Despair solves nothing’: How pilots in tiny planes are saving dogs from death 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z The future has arrived in Bakersfield, and I’m not sure I’m ready for it. Column: These family robots can play trivia and act as security. Can they cure loneliness? 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z “I’ve heard the opposition about Black Californians being disproportionately harmed by three strikes,” Odessa Perkins of Bakersfield told the Assembly committee last week. Column: It's simple — peddling children for sex is serious 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z The suspects, a 16-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy who are both residents of Bakersfield, were arrested at the scene, police said. Two teens arrested after crashing into police car at Burbank Town Center, injuring officer 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Those sites include 37 wells with Citadel Exploration in Bakersfield; 22 wells with Sunray Petroleum near Arvin and Lamont in Kern County; and 21 wells in Los Angeles with AllenCo Energy. California will cap hundreds of orphaned oil wells, some long suspected of causing illness 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z First there’s a litter of six hamster-sized newborns, some kind of Chihuahua mix who came into the Bakersfield shelter with their umbilical cords still attached. ‘Despair solves nothing’: How pilots in tiny planes are saving dogs from death 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z The nation’s most populous state played a pivotal role in 2022 in securing the gavel for Republicans and installing Rep. Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield as speaker. California GOP mayor announces US House campaign, setting up another competitive congressional race 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z In September 2014, then a 24-year-old from Bakersfield, California, Matthew Miller was sentenced to six years of hard labor by North Korea’s Supreme Court on charges that he illegally entered the country for spying purposes. A look at some American who crossed into North Korea over the past years 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z The car was stolen from Bakersfield, authorities said. Two teens arrested after crashing into police car at Burbank Town Center, injuring officer 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z But first, the Bakersfield, Calif., native had to go home. How former Husky Rashaan Shehee helped set another running back on a path to Seattle 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z He was a stray, Jackson said, running loose and then held in Bakersfield’s cacophonous shelter that’s bulging with more than 300 dogs this week. ‘Despair solves nothing’: How pilots in tiny planes are saving dogs from death 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z The bill in question is Senate Bill 14, by Republican Shannon Grove, who represents a swath of the Central Valley that stretches roughly from Fresno to Bakersfield and into the desert. Column: Support pedophiles or protect children? A false question roils California Legislature 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z The National Weather Service said places such as Palmdale and Bakersfield might see 105-degree temperatures, and Los Angeles County’s valleys could experience 100 degrees by Saturday. How to stay cool and safe during California's first heat wave of the summer 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z In Kern County, Calif., where Bakersfield is located, there were also about 112 young men for every 100 young women. King County has third-highest ratio of young men to young women in U.S. 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z But, after closing the book on his football career, Shehee moved back to Bakersfield and started teaching health at Bakersfield High School in 2001. How former Husky Rashaan Shehee helped set another running back on a path to Seattle 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z In Bakersfield, Calif., the heat index will climb above 100 on Friday. 115 Degrees Fahrenheit 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z I visited the banks of the Kern River, northeast of Bakersfield. How to Stay Safe in California’s Roaring Rivers This Summer 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z A pair of journalists recently kayaked across to see if they could paddle their way from Bakersfield to the San Francisco Bay. A Vast Lake Has Captivated California Where Farms Stood a Year Ago 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z “It’s a shame their communication has been so poor,” said retired Bakersfield lightweight Gonzalo Montellano, 65, who first learned from The Times in February that he is owed a $20,000 lump sum boxing pension. Mexico joins effort to locate retired boxers owed California pensions 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z “It’s a beautiful thing for me. I couldn’t ask for anything more,” Shehee said, when asked about another Bakersfield running back resurfacing in Seattle. How former Husky Rashaan Shehee helped set another running back on a path to Seattle 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z In 2021, the California attorney general’s office called for comprehensive reforms in the Bakersfield Police Department after an independent investigation and years of accusations of excessive force and other violations. From drag queens to inmates: The ACLU's battle for civil liberties in Southern California 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z A Trump super PAC condemned the agency for making a “sweetheart deal,” and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the Bakersfield Republican, demanded that Justice officials turn over their records for a Republican-led House committee to examine. Opinion: Republicans attack the DOJ and the FBI, but it's Democrats that should have a beef with the feds 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z “But ... in Bakersfield, downwind of a bunch of ‘Big Ag’ and some of the largest oil fields in the state. Cooking with a gas stove may be as bad as breathing secondhand cigarette smoke, study finds 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z Mothers in Bakersfield forbid their children from diving in, lest they be swept away. After a Winter Deluge, California Rivers Are Too Dangerous to Enjoy 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z The girls from the club took him under their wing and he practiced three or four more times before moving back to Bakersfield. Polemaster's Playhouse offers a sexy safe space to make it rain for queer and BIPOC dancers 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z The Bakersfield Republican led a delegation to Israel this week and became only the second U.S. Pariah or partner? U.S. navigates complicated, contradictory relationship with Saudi Arabia 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Deborah Corley-Marzett has been running a family day care program out of her home in Bakersfield for the last 20 years. Child-care providers by day, Amazon drivers by night. Workers fight for living wages. 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z There were five on Tuesday — and five the next day — at the office of certified public accountant Tyler Ashmore in Bakersfield. IRS apologizes for telling taxpayers their debt was due in weeks rather than months 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z The Kern River originates near Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States, and winds through Tulare County before it meanders into Kern County down to the valley floor, and through Bakersfield. After a Winter Deluge, California Rivers Are Too Dangerous to Enjoy 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z When he moved back to Bakersfield two years later, he dedicated himself fully to progressing as a dancer. Polemaster's Playhouse offers a sexy safe space to make it rain for queer and BIPOC dancers 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z A lot of people bet that the Republican from Bakersfield would be unable to keep his factionalized majority in line. Biden delivers first Oval Office speech, celebrates 'a crisis averted' 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Valdez conceived El Pachuco as the embodiment of the outrageously stylish young batos he used to spot around town, who spoke a Cantinflas-meets-Raymond-Chandler patois called caló and jitterbugged at clubs from Boyle Heights to Bakersfield. By exploring LA's racial injustice, Luis Valdez's 'Zoot Suit' gave birth to Chicano theater 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Underestimated from the start, the Republican who cruised around his California hometown of Bakersfield and stumbled into a career in Congress was never taken too seriously by the Washington establishment. Underestimated McCarthy emerges from debt deal empowered as speaker, still threatened by far right 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z “They never said anything about it when I was a pro,” said welterweight Mike Dallas Jr., 36, of Bakersfield, who retired from boxing in 2020. California to step up efforts to find boxers owed pensions following Times report 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z South Hills 2, Bakersfield Centennial 1: Steven Jimenez threw four scoreless innings and Marcos Rosales had an RBI double in the first inning to lead South Hills in a Division II opener. Crespi opens with win over Carson in Division II baseball regionals 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z First Amendment fight: A reporter at The Bakersfield Californian was found in contempt of court last week after she refused to turn over notes from a jailhouse interview with a co-defendant in a murder case. The New York Times Magazine Devotes an Issue to California 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z The president has been in elected office since McCarthy was a young man growing up in dusty Bakersfield, running a sandwich shop counter from his uncle’s yogurt shop and becoming immersed in Reagan-era politics. Debt ceiling tests McCarthy, as GOP speaker rides breezily through fight of his career 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z It marks the first time since 2006 that the intertie, which connects the Kern to the aqueduct west of Bakersfield, has been activated. California to trigger rarely used relief valve on Kern River, diverting flows to state aqueduct 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z “The levees through Bakersfield are in good shape,” he added, “although some recreation areas and bike paths may get a little bit wet.” Chevron scrambles to batten down oil fields amid threat of Kern River flooding 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z In Bakersfield, California, she meets a community of Punjabis who have opened a roadside truck stop, and others who are almond farmers and processors. Lidia Bastianich honors immigrants and their food in PBS special ‘Lidia Celebrates America’ 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z So far Nieto has made five walks through the state and is preparing his sixth, which will start from the Mexican Consulate on Sept. 15 and will try to reach Bakersfield seven days later. Column: For Santiago Nieto, all roads in California lead to farmworkers 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z The Bakersfield Republican clinched the gavel in January by caving to the hard-line faction of his party, striking a bargain that allows a single member to force a vote to oust him from the role. Kevin McCarthy, facing his biggest test yet, sees no movement on debt limit deal 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z Muniz’s comeback, so to speak, began in late 2021 when he drove a late model at Kern County Raceway Park in Bakersfield, California. Frankie Muniz of ‘Malcolm in the Middle’ out front in racing 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z The Bakersfield Republican led a delegation to Israel this week, where he lavished praise on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and became only the second U.S. News Analysis: Why Kevin McCarthy's provocative Israel trip and invite to Netanyahu are 'so dangerous' 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Hollin Kretzmann, an attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, said Bakersfield, Calif., which appears numerous times on the list of most-polluted locations, has “some of the world’s most dangerous air.” Report finds that heat, drought and fires worsen air in the West 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Dwayne Cantrell, Bakersfield’s chief enrollment officer, said credit loss is rare, and many classes from California community colleges automatically get accepted. ‘Waste of time’: Community college transfers derail students 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Biden and McCarthy will have to find compromise come January, when the GOP takes control of the House of Representatives and the Bakersfield Republican is expected to secure the Speaker’s gavel. Kevin McCarthy, facing his biggest test yet, sees no movement on debt limit deal 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z But when officials at Bakersfield reviewed the transcript, they said most of her classes wouldn’t count toward her major. ‘Waste of time’: Community college transfers derail students 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z Allen, the convicted murderer from Bakersfield who rejected Spolin’s suggestions three years ago, said he received an unsolicited letter from him in March offering different services. How a Westside lawyer cashed in on criminal justice reform by fanning the hopes of inmates’ families 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z People in the valley near Bakersfield live under brown “layers of pollution,” Cort said. Report finds that heat, drought and fires worsen air in the West 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Skinner also began learning chess about a year ago when he was playing in the AHL with the Bakersfield Condors. Chess, books, Netflix: Hockey goalies try anything to unplug 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Los Angeles-Long Beach is the worst for ozone pollution, while Bakersfield is the worst for year-round particle and short-term particle pollution. D.C. air gets an ‘F’ from American Lung Association 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Dwayne Cantrell, Bakersfield’s chief enrollment officer, said credit loss is rare and many classes from California community colleges are accepted automatically. ‘Waste of time’: Community college transfers derail students 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the Central Valley cities of Bakersfield and Visalia tied for the country’s worst year-round levels of fine particle pollution. Los Angeles gets F grade for air quality once again in national report 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon recently stripped a Democrat from Bakersfield, the heart of California’s oil patch, of a key committee assignment after she had the temerity to oppose Newsom’s crackdown on the industry’s price-gouging. Column: Here's why an unhinged Trump can't be ignored, tempting as it may be 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Red Rock Canyon State Park: Also east of Bakersfield, the park’s Hagen Canyon, Iron Canyon — where four-wheel drive is recommended — and the area around the visitor center are in bloom for another month. The superbloom has begun. See breathtaking photos and a map of where to go 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z But in the House speaker’s Bakersfield district, reaction is more nuanced. Kari Lake, Marjorie Taylor Greene bank on defending Trump to boost their political fortunes 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z The university rejected most of her science classes, she was told, because they were deemed less rigorous than those at Bakersfield — even though some used the same textbooks. ‘Waste of time’: Community college transfers derail students 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z State lawmaker removed: Assemblywoman Jasmeet Bains of Bakersfield, the first Sikh woman of Indian origin elected to the California State Assembly, has been removed from a state committee, The Bakersfield Californian reports. Californians Share Why They Love Where They Live 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z McCarthy, a sandwich shop operator in Bakersfield, California, before working as a congressional aide and being elected to Congress, is not known for vast foreign policy experience. For McCarthy and Taiwan’s leader, visit marks historic first 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Tule Elk State Natural Reserve: Southwest of Bakersfield, the natural reserve currently features “large patches of goldfields and filaree blooming,” the parks department said. The superbloom has begun. See breathtaking photos and a map of where to go 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z The appeal of classes taught in Korean draws Young Sook Cho to Los Angeles City College from her home in Bakersfield once a week. A 'game changer' for immigrants: Job-ready college classes in their native language 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z But back home in McCarthy’s Bakersfield congressional district, the reaction is more nuanced. How Kevin McCarthy's Bakersfield is reacting to Trump's indictment 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z That summer, two men kayaked through the floodwaters from the banks of the Kern River just outside downtown Bakersfield to the San Francisco Bay, a meandering 450-mile journey across what would typically be sun-baked land. Tulare Lake Was Drained Off the Map. Nature Would Like a Word. 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z Lawmakers representing areas like McCarthy’s deep-red Bakersfield district have only that narrow slice of voters to consider. Column: Scandal after scandal, Trump has defied political physics. Will this time be different? 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Dotson invoked a geographic analogy: “If I’m going to drive from downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica, I’m not going to drive through Bakersfield.” Ridley-Thomas trial draws toward end with sharply conflicting portraits of politician 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Now, the town of nearly 600 people northwest of Bakersfield faces another threat — a broken levee, along with yet another storm expected to hit in a few days. 'We need to stop the water’: A California town's frantic fight to save itself 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z But Margaret Govea, a 60-year-old director of a university student health program who lives in Bakersfield just outside McCarthy’s district, said she thought the Trump indictment was “a long time coming.” How Kevin McCarthy's Bakersfield is reacting to Trump's indictment 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z An Amazon worker at a Bakersfield warehouse alleges the company fired him last month for seeking time off to grieve his parents’ deaths, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Kern County Superior Court. His parents died. Then Amazon fired him for seeking time off, a worker’s suit alleges 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Farther inland, flood advisories were in effect from Bakersfield to Yosemite, with a high risk of of flash flooding east of the Fresno area, said Jim Brusda, a meteorologist with the weather service in Hanford. Another atmospheric river storm slams California, state's 11th this season 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z It would have been possible to sail from what was not yet Bakersfield, north past the flooded Capitol in Sacramento, almost to where Redding now sits. Editorial: Restore California's floodplains to capture more stormwater, protect human life 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z Among the hardest-hit areas last week was Springville in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada about 65 miles northeast of Bakersfield. Another powerful storm is set to intensify flood threat in California 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Back in Bakersfield, voters who make up Trump’s base — and McCarthy’s — want to see the speaker continue to back the former president. How Kevin McCarthy's Bakersfield is reacting to Trump's indictment 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z But Trump abandoned that doctrine, and other Republicans, including House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield, fell in line — even though fiscal experts in both parties acknowledge that the programs are heading toward financial trouble. Column: Biden's budget was an opening bid. Where's the Republican plan? 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z Up to 4.3 inches of rain was reported in Tulare County — which is southeast of Fresno and northeast of Bakersfield — within 24 hours ending Saturday morning. Flooding inundates Central California communities, blocking routes out 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a Bakersfield native, has long called the project, which would serve his own district, a boondoggle. New cost estimate for California high-speed project puts it deeper in the red 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z In addition to the foot of rain that fell in Tulare County, north of Bakersfield, several other extreme 48-hour totals were logged: Another powerful storm is set to intensify flood threat in California 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z But she acknowledged that the alliance has bolstered McCarthy’s standing among some Bakersfield voters. How Kevin McCarthy's Bakersfield is reacting to Trump's indictment 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z “I saw that the Glen Burnie program, they were getting stepped on. A lot of people talked bad about them,” said Porter, who is headed to Cal State Bakersfield next. Amourie Porter and her coaching father lead Glen Burnie to first state title 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Still, as the party gathers for a three-day convention starting Friday near the state Capitol in downtown Sacramento, there are bright spots — most notably Bakersfield’s Kevin McCarthy winning the gavel as speaker of the House. California Republicans, buoyed by congressional wins, have no obvious Senate prospects 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z “Absent very significant additional federal funds, the state will need to contribute additional funding to get that segment from Merced to Bakersfield completed.” New cost estimate for California high-speed project puts it deeper in the red 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z This is life in Bakersfield, Calif. — the insurance industry’s nightmare as the per capita car theft capital of America. Perspective | If Congress must tackle D.C. issues, let’s tell them our problems 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Temple dispute: A former Bakersfield City Council candidate was arrested on suspicion of trying to hire hit men to kill leaders of one of the city’s largest Sikh temples, The Bakersfield Californian reports. The Debate Around Bruce’s Beach 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z “God’s trying to tell me he doesn’t want me using drugs because every time I use them I get caught,” Sizemore told The Bakersfield Californian in a jailhouse interview. Tom Sizemore, ‘Saving Private Ryan’ actor, dies at 61 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z “It’s all digital now, so a story in the San Francisco Chronicle might be read in Bakersfield. A piece in the L.A. Times can be read in Berkeley.” Column: Trump tormentor, whiteboard wizard — it's the brand that matters in California Senate race 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield ranked at the bottom of the list, with fewer than 3 in 10 voters offering positive opinions and a majority of voters viewing him unfavorably. Newsom gets good marks in new poll but faces test with budget crisis 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Christian, who has served as community college chancellor in Kern County since July 2021, started as a math professor at Bakersfield College in 1991. Kern County leader named California Community College chancellor at system's pivotal time 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Jones is acting as a spokesperson for Ergun, a Bakersfield resident who’s currently in Turkey and organizing the burials of his relatives. 'I can’t believe that they’re gone': California man loses 14 relatives in Turkey quake 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Tucked away a half-hour from Bakersfield, unbeknownst to many, a California Historic Park commemorates life in the unique community, which began when Lt. Allensworth, California's first freedman's town, looks to history to build better future 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z For example, the homicide rate in Bakersfield, California — the principal city in Kevin McCarthy's district — was more than twice as high as that of San Francisco, represented in the house by former Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Republicans like to talk tough on crime — but they're the ones with a real crime problem 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Chavez lived in Bakersfield and commuted to work, though she sometimes stayed at her mother’s house in Reseda, which is where she was the night before the crash, Matsuo said. Driver killed by speeding Corvette was a mother of four on her way to work, friend says 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z She returned to Kern County in 2013 when she became president at Bakersfield College, according to the district. Kern County leader named California Community College chancellor at system's pivotal time 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z They lived together in Bakersfield until they divorced in August 2021. 'I can’t believe that they’re gone': California man loses 14 relatives in Turkey quake 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z “Martin Luther King wasn’t the only dreamer,” said Sasha Briscoe, a resident of Bakersfield and president of Friends of Allensworth, which organizes events and assists with upkeep at the historic park. Allensworth, California's first freedman's town, looks to history to build better future 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat whose home stands just yards from the boundary with the District, pointed out that Bakersfield, in Mr. McCarthy’s California district, has a higher crime rate than Washington. House votes to overturn D.C.’s illegal immigrant voting plan 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z “Here’s a man who stood up for freedom, lost his right to continue to play basketball, but he continues to fight,” the Bakersfield Republican told reporters on Monday. These are the most interesting guests at the State of the Union tonight 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z Minnich expects some blooms in the lower San Joaquin Valley around Bakersfield. Are the conditions ripe for a 'superbloom' in rain-soaked California? Here's what experts say 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Nearly two weeks ago, Bakersfield resident Sherry Jones got a text message from her ex-husband, Mervan Ergun, informing her that there had been a large earthquake in Turkey and Syria. 'I can’t believe that they’re gone': California man loses 14 relatives in Turkey quake 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Miller was a high school student, and Mr. McCarthy was a district staff member for the Bakersfield, Calif., area’s congressman. The Powerful Lobbyist Behind Kevin McCarthy 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z In the spring of 1971, only about three dozen people were on hand for a dress rehearsal of an amateur production of “Oliver!” at Bakersfield College’s desert campus. Guns have been in motion pictures since the start. 'Rust' is only the latest to have a gun death 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z The district’s most populous city is Bakersfield, where McCarthy grew up and played for the Bakersfield High School football team, the Drillers. These 6 GOP leaders will shift Congress on climate Aslikyan will be the heavy favorite in his weight class to win a City Section championship on Feb. 11, but the real test will come at the state championships in Bakersfield Feb. 23-25. Column: Birmingham High's Henry Aslikyan is a Mighty Mouse on the wrestling mat 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z The San Joaquin Valley, which stretches more than 200 miles from Bakersfield to Stockton, is one of the richest farming regions in the world. ‘I am afraid to live here’: How a massacre in a small California town named Goshen shocked the country 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z “My job, which is a public service, is to protect kids,” said Olivia Garrison, a history teacher in Bakersfield, Calif., who is nonbinary, who has helped students socially transition at school without their parents’ knowledge. When Students Change Gender Identity, and Parents Don’t Know 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z McCarthy himself hails from Bakersfield, California, a city so steeped in oil that its high-school football team, which McCarthy played on as a teenager, is called "the Drillers." What the House speaker’s deal with ultraconservatives means for climate 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Three cities received one application, and in Bakersfield, Danville and Santa Maria, zero were submitted. A new California housing law has done little to encourage building, report says 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z A 300-mile-long lake was created in the Central Valley from near Bakersfield to Red Bluff. California has lots of catching up to do on flood management — with or without climate change 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z On Jan. 4, as the first storms began to dump heavy rain, the state’s Office of Emergency Services stationed the Bakersfield Fire Department’s swift water rescue team just outside Sacramento. A canoe, a rope and a swimmer: Rescuing Californians stranded by recent violent storms 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Sure, McCarthy is the hometown guy from Bakersfield, representing the rural, agricultural Central Valley. For ultraconservatives in McCarthy's red California district, speaker drama in D.C. was welcome 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z The cities of Sacramento, Fresno, Stockton and Bakersfield lie in the flood plains of major rivers, but massive reservoirs hold back and store floodwaters. Opinion | Flooding in California has been worse before — and likely will be again 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z Early Tuesday, another two people died in a crash on Highway 99 near Visalia, between Fresno and Bakersfield, when a tree fell on the road, the California Highway Patrol said. Calif. storm triggers more floods, tornado warnings as death toll climbs 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z Republican consultant Mike Madrid, who was political director for the state GOP when McCarthy ran the district office for former Republican Rep. Bill Thomas of Bakersfield, says: McCarthy's Mar-a-Lago trip was his tipping point. It showed he could be bullied into submission 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z But few believed the man from Bakersfield with the firefighter father and the high school sweetheart wife would be denied. Kevin McCarthy wins his dream job, but at a humiliating and stifling cost 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z David Bynum, a Bakersfield lawyer and former intern for McCarthy, said most local conservatives are excited to have one of Kern County’s own as speaker. For ultraconservatives in McCarthy's red California district, speaker drama in D.C. was welcome 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Bakersfield is where he was born and raised, went to college and ran his first business selling sandwiches out of the back of his uncle’s yogurt shop on Stine Road. Far-Right Critics Vex McCarthy in His Bakersfield District, Too 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z The Bakersfield Californian reported that the politician’s allies believed he was being mistreated by rabble-rousers who had no clear agenda. 'Madness.' 'Chaos.' 'Stupid.' How the McCarthy stalemate is playing on Fox News 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z But if he hadn’t, would the Bakersfield native have become speaker? McCarthy's Mar-a-Lago trip was his tipping point. It showed he could be bullied into submission 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z He sought out candidates, remembered names, bought dinners, traveled tens of thousands of miles and was as at ease with the wealthy as he was walking the furrows of Bakersfield and grabbing lunch at Luigi’s. Kevin McCarthy wins his dream job, but at a humiliating and stifling cost 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z Bakersfield has long been one of the reddest cities in California. For ultraconservatives in McCarthy's red California district, speaker drama in D.C. was welcome 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z But the Bakersfield of Mr. McCarthy’s youth in the 1960s and 1970s is not the Bakersfield of today. Far-Right Critics Vex McCarthy in His Bakersfield District, Too 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Farming and oil pumping shape the economy — on a recent rainy morning in Bakersfield, fields of oil tanks, warehouses and the leaping flames from a refinery’s gas flare stood out against a coal-colored sky. As speaker bid falters, mixed views of McCarthy in hometown 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z That was the tipping point for the Bakersfield Republican. McCarthy's Mar-a-Lago trip was his tipping point. It showed he could be bullied into submission 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z Journey is set to come to Southern California for gigs in Bakersfield, Fresno and Thousand Palms in April. Don't stop believin', but do avoid Journey songs for political events, says guitarist 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z And it is the birthplace of country music’s gritty “Bakersfield sound” and home to one of its patron saints, Merle Haggard. For ultraconservatives in McCarthy's red California district, speaker drama in D.C. was welcome 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Bakersfield and surrounding Kern County are now predominantly Latino, and Democrats are making inroads. Far-Right Critics Vex McCarthy in His Bakersfield District, Too 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z “He could do more for the folks living in Kern County,” east of Los Angeles where Bakersfield is the county seat. As speaker bid falters, mixed views of McCarthy in hometown 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Bakersfield police say the man, whose name was not made public, was initially holding a gun — prompting officers to open fire — but he discarded it and ran through dirt fields. Police: California officers shoot, kill man armed with knife 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Fresno State outscored CSU Bakersfield in the second half by eight points, with Hill scoring a team-high 11 points in the final half. Hill nets 17, Fresno State knocks off CSU Bakersfield 56-48 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z The son of a firefighter, he played football for the Bakersfield High School Drillers and ran a sandwich counter called Kevin O’s out of his uncle’s yogurt shop. For ultraconservatives in McCarthy's red California district, speaker drama in D.C. was welcome 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Ken Mettler, a past president of the California Republican Assembly, the state organization that the Bakersfield group is part of, was practically gleeful about Mr. McCarthy’s struggles in the House. Far-Right Critics Vex McCarthy in His Bakersfield District, Too 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z McCarthy’s sporadic appearances in the district also are a concern for Andrew Willingham, a manager at the bustling Pyrenees Café in downtown Bakersfield, which is popular with oil field workers and dependent on their patronage. As speaker bid falters, mixed views of McCarthy in hometown 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Wildfires: California recently released its latest Fire Hazard Severity Zone map, with Kern County having 641,441 acres ranked very high for wildfire risk, mostly in mountainous areas, The Bakersfield Californian reports. California Begins Service Program for College Students 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Dry riverbed: Conservation groups are going to court to try to bring back a flowing river in Bakersfield, The Los Angeles Times reports. The Year in Energy News 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z In his acceptance speech, delivered after midnight, McCarthy quoted country music legend Buck Owens: “How many of you that sit and judge me ever walked the streets of Bakersfield?” For ultraconservatives in McCarthy's red California district, speaker drama in D.C. was welcome 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Salvaggio, the former city councilman, pointed to a veterans outpatient clinic that Mr. McCarthy has been promising Bakersfield for more than a decade — and that still hasn’t materialized. Far-Right Critics Vex McCarthy in His Bakersfield District, Too 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z To Mark Martinez, the political science department chair at California State University, Bakersfield, the turbulent congressional sessions leaving the House without a speaker expose weaknesses in McCarthy’s leadership that will be difficult to erase. As speaker bid falters, mixed views of McCarthy in hometown 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Six environmental groups sued the city of Bakersfield, saying that continuing to allow diversions of water upstream from the city harms the environment and the community. In Bakersfield, a lawsuit aims to turn a dry riverbed into a flowing river 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z “I drove all the way from Bakersfield today to be here,” said Findley, who also works as a preschool teacher. Fresno State and fun vibes win the day at Jimmy Kimmel L.A. Bowl 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z The only large-population county in the entire U.S. to see negative GDP growth in 2021 was Kern County, where the city of Bakersfield, California, is located. Silicon Valley soared compared with Seattle in COVID’s first 2 years 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Rep. Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield, who is likely to become House speaker next year when Republicans gain control of the lower chamber, was among those voting no. On same-sex marriage, 'the country has caught up with California' 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z With Bakersfield in a rare, national spotlight, “this is really embarrassing,” Martinez said. As speaker bid falters, mixed views of McCarthy in hometown 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z “We can put a river back through Bakersfield, and we can still let these businesses still grow crops and still make money,” Keats said. In Bakersfield, a lawsuit aims to turn a dry riverbed into a flowing river 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z “I drove from Fresno to Bakersfield and Bakersfield here — it’s been like a five-hour drive.” Fresno State and fun vibes win the day at Jimmy Kimmel L.A. Bowl 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z Robert Pair of the Bakersfield Police Department said investigators had seen no thefts involving the CPC units in all of 2021. Thieves are targeting semitrucks to steal one pricey part 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z The other two are north in Bakersfield and east in Moreno Valley. The Raiders return to L.A. on Thursday night. In many ways it's as if they never left 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z A Bakersfield, Calif., product, Williams produced 49 tackles, three interceptions and one forced fumble in 24 career games. Source: UW Huskies safety Cameron Williams to enter transfer portal 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Damian, who has lived in Bakersfield for 16 years, said she feels deeply concerned seeing the river completely dry, its desiccated ecosystem deteriorating. In Bakersfield, a lawsuit aims to turn a dry riverbed into a flowing river 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z Before serving five terms in the Assembly, Salas was the first Latino to serve on the Bakersfield City Council. Rep. David Valadao wins reelection in endangered Central Valley congressional seat 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z The spike in thefts also prompted the Bakersfield Police Department to issue tips to prevent the thefts, including parking in a lighted area and in the view of surveillance cameras. Thieves are targeting semitrucks to steal one pricey part 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Without a red wave, the Bakersfield Republican now faces a narrow, fractious majority and a rocky road to the speakership. Both parties had high hopes for California in the midterms. Neither saw their dreams fully come true 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Its largest campus, Bakersfield College, lost comparatively few students. California community college enrollment plummets to 30-year low 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Damian said using up the entire river has created a “massive dead zone” and influenced how people see Bakersfield. In Bakersfield, a lawsuit aims to turn a dry riverbed into a flowing river 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z Trump stayed out of the race for California’s 22nd district at the urging of GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy, who comes from neighboring Bakersfield. Rep. David Valadao wins reelection in endangered Central Valley congressional seat 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z The Bakersfield Police Department also urges drivers and companies to enable password protection for the CPC units. Thieves are targeting semitrucks to steal one pricey part 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z The Democrat took trips to Bakersfield and Fresno to hear firsthand about California’s severe water problems. Being mayor is different from being a legislator. But Bass has shined in every political job 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z House Republicans voted Tuesday to nominate Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy as the next speaker, putting the Bakersfield lawmaker on track to achieve a long-sought ambition. Kevin McCarthy wins GOP nomination for House speaker 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z “If we can bring the Kern River back to life through the center of the city of Bakersfield, we can do this anywhere.” In Bakersfield, a lawsuit aims to turn a dry riverbed into a flowing river 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z McCarthy: Representative Kevin McCarthy, who represents Bakersfield, on Monday scrounged for the support he would need to become speaker of the House if Republicans gain control of the chamber. U.C. Workers Strike on All 10 Campuses 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Huerta was in the city she ironically and affectionately refers to as “Bakersfield, Alabama,” to give a lecture on “How to Overcome Apathy and Find Your Power.” Dolores Huerta's passion for music will be illuminated at CSUN tribute to civil rights activist 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Eastern Time on Wednesday after the Bakersfield Republican took the microphone for a quick speech. Republican Kevin McCarthy wins his California house race, turns eyes to the speakership 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z McCarthy has tied himself to former President Trump and all that comes with that affiliation, but what does the Bakersfield Republican really stand for, and how is he most likely to wield his new power? The Times podcast: Can Kevin McCarthy control Congress? 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z A Republican win would likely elevate Rep. Kevin McCarthy, a Bakersfield Republican who now serves as minority leader, to the speakership he has coveted for years. Republicans confident of House control, Senate remains close as first polls close 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z “I’ve been fortunate in our business, but our pockets are getting tighter and tighter,” said Garay, 31, who works on campaign issues for Bakersfield Republican Women, Federated. Farmer vs. farmworker's son. What this race for Congress means in California's Central Valley 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z McCarthy: Kevin McCarthy, the Bakersfield Republican, is likely to be the next speaker of the House if his party regains control of the chamber in the midterm elections, The Los Angeles Times reports. How Hollywood Got Behind California’s Prop. 28 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z It then runs south to Rosamond and stretches west to take Maricopa and half of Bakersfield in a third arm. Republican Kevin McCarthy wins his California house race, turns eyes to the speakership 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Such is the discussion in McCarthy’s hometown of Bakersfield, where crops flash in mist and dust and the elements can seep into a man, making him more practical than romantic. Ambition keeps him loyal to Donald Trump. But what does Kevin McCarthy stand for? 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z The Bakersfield congressman’s ideological flexibility, fundraising prowess and management of Donald Trump have helped him hold House Republicans together as they head into the midterm elections. Republicans confident of House control, Senate remains close as first polls close 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z That a farmworker’s son is challenging a farmer for a seat in Congress represents significant change in the valley, said Oliver Rosales, a history professor at Bakersfield College. Farmer vs. farmworker's son. What this race for Congress means in California's Central Valley 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z Chevron recently sold its California headquarters and plans to consolidate some of its unused Bakersfield office space as it shifts employees to Texas. Oil giants sell thousands of California wells, raising worries about future liability 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z He later returned to California as a counselor for Upward Bound and the College Assistance Migrant Program at Cal State Bakersfield, which helps students with farmworking backgrounds transition to college. Your guide to the California Congressional District 22 race: Rep. David Valadao vs. Rudy Salas 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z One recent afternoon, the lunch crowd had left Luigi’s — a McCarthy haunt for years — and the Bakersfield High Drillers had yet to take the field. Ambition keeps him loyal to Donald Trump. But what does Kevin McCarthy stand for? 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Kevin McCarthy, the top House Republican and the representative from Bakersfield, has predicted the G.O.P. could seize control of the chamber by picking up seats solely in California. Which California House Races to Watch This Election 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z “Because this is not a presidential election year, it’s going to be tough to get Latinos and so-called Valleycrats out to vote,” said Mark Martinez, chair of the political science department at Cal State Bakersfield. Farmer vs. farmworker's son. What this race for Congress means in California's Central Valley 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z The state Department of Fair Housing and Employment had sued Tastries Bakery in Bakersfield, arguing owner Cathy Miller intentionally discriminated against the couple in violation of California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act. Judge sides with California baker over same-sex wedding cake 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z And last week, the House Republican leader, Rep. Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield, suggested that he may block further defense and humanitarian aid to Ukraine if he is installed as speaker of the House next year. Republicans who question U.S. aid to Ukraine may soon have the power to end it 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z Bakersfield sees itself that way too, a place of battering and renewal; a town of Merle Haggard songs, passing trains and the muddy boots of field hands. Ambition keeps him loyal to Donald Trump. But what does Kevin McCarthy stand for? 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Just like her daughter’s due date, USC’s opener against Cal State Bakersfield on Nov. 8 was approaching quickly and Gottlieb couldn’t put either on hold, despite pleas from her coaching staff to rest. USC women's basketball eager to win while coach Lindsay Gottlieb is on maternity leave 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z But Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy, of nearby Bakersfield, is personally close to Valadao and has made saving his seat a priority. Column: Red wave vs. blue wall: Will California save or sink Democrats in November? 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z “I’m hoping that in our community we can grow together,” Miller told the Bakersfield Californian after the ruling. Judge sides with California baker over same-sex wedding cake 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z “President Biden has failed on grocery prices, on energy prices, on crime,” House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, who lives in Bakersfield, said recently. Democrats hoping Biden can provide West Coast election boost 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z McCarthy brought Trump to Bakersfield in 2020 to support relaxing protections for endangered species so more water could flow to farms in the San Joaquin Valley. Ambition keeps him loyal to Donald Trump. But what does Kevin McCarthy stand for? 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Jimmy Cuéllar, the son of Mexican immigrants, was born and raised in Bakersfield, surrounded by mariachi performers in his family. How the Dodgers' mariachis have become a very L.A. tradition 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z “We have a lot of our younger students who want to be face to face,” said Emmanuel Mourtzanos, a vice chancellor in the Kern Community College District, which includes Bakersfield. Overwhelming demand for online classes is reshaping California's community colleges 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Proponents of running the rail through the booming cities of Bakersfield, Fresno and Merced cited a lot of arguments: The Central Valley needed jobs. How California’s Bullet Train Went Off the Rails 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z Williams — a 6-0, 207-pounder from Bakersfield, Calif. — has produced 49 tackles, three interceptions and one forced fumble in 24 career games. Examining the line between courage and calamity for standout UW QB Michael Penix Jr. 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Tanned and dressed in a blue suit, the Bakersfield Republican, who is likely to be the next speaker of the House, stepped out beneath an American flag. Ambition keeps him loyal to Donald Trump. But what does Kevin McCarthy stand for? 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z In what Democrats said was a reflection of their changing fortunes, in late August, the House Majority PAC announced purchases in four cities within Republican-held districts: Albuquerque, Cincinnati and two California cities, Bakersfield and Fresno. Millions Pour Into Group Working to Keep Democrats’ House Majority 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z At Bakersfield College, students are completing online and in-person classes at similar rates, officials said. Overwhelming demand for online classes is reshaping California's community colleges 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Lynn got her big break from Bakersfield country musician Buck Owens, who was hosting a television show in Washington at the time. Loretta Lynn, coal miner's daughter who transformed country music, dies at 90 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z “Buy This” Ralph Smith, the Bakersfield Realtor who took, and survived, a bullet to the chest defending his family in a home invasion. As a young man, I traveled the High Sierra by mule. After 59 years, I tried it again 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z The 20-year-old from Bakersfield often starts her trips with a black tea lemonade from Starbucks before meandering the aisles, always checking out the Lego section for the sake of nostalgia. 'I need to go to therapy soon, and by therapy I mean Target.' Roaming the aisles as self-care? 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Central California will also see temperatures about 6 to 10 degrees above normal for the time of year, with Bakersfield, Hanford and Fresno all expected to peak at around 95 degrees. Ready for another heat wave? Triple-digit temperatures on tap for Southern California 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z After graduating with bachelor’s degrees in political science and history, the Bakersfield native worked at the White House for Vice President Al Gore. California's fall election could sway power in Congress. Here are House races to watch 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z “There are RINOs out there. They need to get out, like Kevin McCarthy and Lindsey Graham,” she said, referring to the Bakersfield Republican who leads the House GOP and the longtime senator from South Carolina. In Ohio, Trump mocks Senate candidate he endorsed: J.D. Vance 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z And Frank Diger, the cemetery owner who had employed my Basque grandfather, Bakersfield’s best gravedigger. As a young man, I traveled the High Sierra by mule. After 59 years, I tried it again 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z For Aaron, a native of Bakersfield who has been in L.A. for years, the biggest moments have happened in her transition from behind the camera to in front of it. Modeling as a trust exercise, with Natalia Lemper and Julissa Aaron 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Still, he was locked up in a pretrial jail facility in Bakersfield. 'You can't get out': Mentally ill languish in California jails without trial or treatment 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z He later returned to California as a counselor for Upward Bound and the College Assistance Migrant Program at Cal State Bakersfield, which helps students with farm-working backgrounds transition into college. California's fall election could sway power in Congress. Here are House races to watch 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z A middle school student was arrested in Bakersfield last week after bringing fentanyl pills to school and causing a school employee to overdose, authorities said. Bakersfield student, 13, arrested after middle school employee exposed to fentanyl 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Like when Reed was at Independence High School in Bakersfield, California, and became the first athlete in school history to be selected team MVP in both football and basketball. Jets’ Reed plays with heavy heart, dedicates season to dad 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z Waste treatment: A final analysis is pending that will help the county Board of Supervisors pick a winner among three finalist proposals for waste treatment options, Bakersfield reports. California Doubles Down on Its Housing Laws 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z In Bakersfield, where the temperature hit 115 last week, Golden Empire Transit District had about 16% of their bus stops shaded. Heat waves are getting worse. When will L.A. get around to offering bus riders more shade? 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z “The deals posted to their website tend to be anywhere from 10 to 30 percent less,” says Andrea Woroch, a Bakersfield, Calif.-based budget travel expert. Perspective | As prices rise, travelers are working harder to find bargains 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z In February, a security guard at a Bakersfield health clinic accosted a TV news crew, trying to wrestle their gear away from them, though they stood on public property. Slaying of Las Vegas reporter is a shocking example of threats facing U.S. journalists 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Republican state Sen. Shannon Grove of Bakersfield, one of the state’s oil hubs, said the proposal would affect thousands of wells in her district and do nothing to reduce a need for oil. California Democrats cap legislative year with climate wins 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z More startling to those who have become accustomed to California Democrats’ outsized influence is that Pelosi might be handing the speaker’s gavel to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield, a fellow Californian. What the end of the Pelosi era could cost California 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z “The California climate of having this several-month period of no rain that coincides with the hottest time of the year is globally really weird,” said Anna Jacobsen, plant ecology professor at California State University, Bakersfield. California’s Climate Makes It Especially Vulnerable to Global Warming 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Her brother, my great-uncle, tended a huge arbor of grapes outside their Bakersfield home. How gardening may extend your life and make it better 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Bakersfield musician: Larry Petree, a longtime Bakersfield steel guitar player, and his wife, Betty, were recently found dead in a remote stretch of desert east of California City, The Los Angeles Times reports. What to Know About California’s Ban on New Gasoline-Powered Cars 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Sunday about 29 miles from Bakersfield, according to the U.S. 3.5 earthquake reported near Bakersfield 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z The Bakersfield Republican has come out strongly against high-speed rail and has pushed for climate policies that involve loosening environmental protections that Democrats favor. What the end of the Pelosi era could cost California 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z A longtime Bakersfield musician and his wife were recently found dead, stranded on a dirt road in a remote stretch of desert east of California City, authorities said. Longtime Bakersfield musician and wife found dead in desert east of California City 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z A 22-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of felony animal abuse after animal control officers found 11 dead dogs and dozens of malnourished animals at three homes in Bakersfield earlier this month, according to police. Woman arrested after 11 dead dogs found at Bakersfield homes 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z The land beneath one federally managed aqueduct known as the Friant-Kern Canal, which moves water from the Fresno area toward Bakersfield, has sunk about 13 feet since its completion about 70 years ago. As water supply shrinks, California struggles to maintain aging aqueducts 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z The other three downtowns exceeding their 2019 performance were Bakersfield, California; Columbus, Ohio; and Fresno, California. The state of downtown: How does Seattle compare with other big cities? 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z At the age of 12, she became the sole musician at California's Bakersfield Southside Church, often having to improvise her vocals in the middle of a service. Aretha Franklin Prom will explore 'the core of who she was' 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z It proved that country musicians could play in Bakersfield, cut records in L.A. and forge successful careers far from the Nashville establishment. Longtime Bakersfield musician and wife found dead in desert east of California City 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z Animal control officers searched the homes on Aug. 11 and found 29 dogs and three cats suffering from neglect and 11 dead dogs, according to the Bakersfield Police Department. Woman arrested after 11 dead dogs found at Bakersfield homes 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z The settlement puts a moratorium on any sales of oil and gas leases on federal land around Bakersfield until the appropriate environmental reviews are completed. Settlement blocks new federal fracking leases in California 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Davis said it includes only the items Manson possessed while incarcerated at Corcoran State Prison near Bakersfield, where he died at age 83. Woman who says she's Charles Manson's sister withdraws from dispute over his estate 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z California Resources has proposed capturing 1.5 million tons of carbon dioxide annually from its Elk Hills natural gas power plant about 20 miles west of Bakersfield. California hopes to fight global warming by pumping CO2 underground. Some call it a ruse 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z In July, Petree played a sold-out benefit concert for the Bakersfield Country Music Museum with the Soda Crackers. Longtime Bakersfield musician and wife found dead in desert east of California City 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z “He’s a snake,” said Greg Williams, 65, a retired California Highway Patrol officer from Bakersfield who is quick to qualify that it’s not a McCarthy problem so much as a Washington problem. As Kevin McCarthy’s California district gets redder, discontent brews on his right 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z If linebacker Carl Jones Jr. wants to hold a football clinic in his Bakersfield hometown, go for it. All together now: New UCLA NIL collective led by current and former Bruins 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z At Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, which covers dozens of health centers from Sutter County to Bakersfield, nurse practitioners and midwives can get hands-on training, but “it’s just one person at a time,” Bamberger said. These nurse-midwives want to provide abortions. They're struggling to get trained 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z Housing crisis: Many parts of California that a decade ago had plenty of housing — think Stockton, Bakersfield and Merced — now have serious shortages. Californians Share Their Favorite Farmers’ Markets 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z He graduated from Bakersfield High School, completed a tour of duty in the U.S. Longtime Bakersfield musician and wife found dead in desert east of California City 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z At a shaded table outside a Starbucks at a Bakersfield shopping mall, where Williams gathers each afternoon with a few mostly retired friends, his peers agree. As Kevin McCarthy’s California district gets redder, discontent brews on his right 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z The band, dressed as pageant queens, each bore a sash with the name of a city where abortion clinics were violently attacked: Peoria, Bakersfield, Newport Beach. In the ’90s, a new breed of rock stars organized for abortion rights. Could that happen today? 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z One afternoon in Bakersfield, at the union office of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers’ Local 428, former oil workers practiced bending conduit, the tubes used to route wiring, as they trained to become electricians. California Plans to Quit Oil. Resistance Is Fiercer Than You Think. 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Republican state Sen. Shannon Grove, who represents fossil fuel-rich Bakersfield, said the legislation proves California needs oil and gas. To avoid blackouts, California may tap fossil fuel plants 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Speaking to Root last week, Trump rejected the notion that he had endorsed McCarthy to be the next speaker of the House, cautioning that he only endorsed the Bakersfield Republican for reelection in his district. Trump decries McCarthy's handling of Jan. 6 panel, which a Democrat calls a 'historic and strategic blunder' 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z In Bakersfield, “people are still entrenched in Trump world,” said Pitstick, who works for an insurance company. As Kevin McCarthy’s California district gets redder, discontent brews on his right 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z The unidentified man was struck by lightning while walking in his neighborhood in Ridgecrest, east of Bakersfield, according to the Ridgecrest Police Department. Man survives after being hit by lightning while pushing baby stroller in Kern County 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Air quality: San Joaquin Valley’s air district has approved a plan for reducing emissions in the Arvin and Lamont areas to improve air quality, The Bakersfield Californian reports. A Growing Number of California Cities Are Opening Weed Cafes 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z They told me an elderly man took a taxi to Bakersfield with money. Op-Ed: 'They' said they had my son. 'They' demanded money. So began the days of waiting and crying. 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z Donelda Moberg, a longtime resident of Lindsay who has emphysema, has grown accustomed to enduring air pollution that drifts to her corner of the San Joaquin Valley from nearby Bakersfield and Fresno. Pollution from California's 2020 wildfires likely offset decades of air quality gains 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Only two hours north of Los Angeles, Bakersfield is the gateway to the red island that some Californians view as flyover country. As Kevin McCarthy’s California district gets redder, discontent brews on his right 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z We already know that several Republican lawmakers, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield, were among the latter group. Column: The real lesson of the Jan. 6 committee? Stop electing Trump sycophants to Congress 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z In 2012, he was at Wasco State Prison, near Bakersfield, Calif., about eight months into his sentence for nonviolent charges, when his prison counselor suggested he move to a fire camp. Nonprofit helps formerly incarcerated firefighters get jobs 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z In his youth, the Bakersfield native remembers, he used to live in the same neighborhood as Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. He's young, Black and ambitious. Can he nab Devin Nunes' old House seat for Democrats? 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, from the Central Valley city of Bakersfield, could become the next speaker if the GOP flips enough seats. California US House races could help tilt power in Congress 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Those key races could decide the GOP’s margin in the House and the power of the next House speaker, likely Rep. Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield. California congressional races to watch in the June primary 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield decried what he called “an egregious abuse of power.” Column: The original sin that plagues Congress’ Jan. 6 committee 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z Methane leak: Inspectors found concentrations of methane in the air around some wells in Bakersfield at levels considered potentially explosive, The Associated Press reports. After Texas Shooting, California Lawmakers Promise to Pass More Gun Safety Laws 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Some Bakersfield residents are concerned about potential explosions after a state agency found that six idle oil wells near homes were leaking methane in the past several days. Gas wells leak explosive levels of methane in Bakersfield 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z For Republicans, especially House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield, holding the seat is central to the goal of capturing a decisive majority. California Rep. David Valadao voted to impeach. Can he keep his seat if Trump stays quiet? 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z Earlier this month, researcher Clark Williams-Derry from Washington state walked onto the Kern Bluff oil field in northeast Bakersfield and discovered an audible hiss coming from two oil wells. California oil regulator confirms methane leak at idle oil wells in Bakersfield 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z Then the car broke and a plan to move to Bakersfield fizzled. With Plunging Enrollment, a ‘Seismic Hit’ to Public Schools 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z The plan also includes $233 million in one-time funding to build the Cal State Bakersfield Energy Innovation Center and support farming programs and deferred maintenance. UC, CSU and community colleges set to get big funding boost — with big expectations 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z CalGEM said in their report on the four additional leaks that they were notifying the owner/operators of the wells, Sunray Petroleum, to repair the leaks and that they briefed the Bakersfield Fire Department. Gas wells leak explosive levels of methane in Bakersfield 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z At a state Republican Party convention last month, House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield said he’d be holding the chamber’s gavel in January, not Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco. California Democratic supremacy tested by crime, inflation 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Last Tuesday, an inspector from the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District confirmed the methane leak in Bakersfield and reported it to the California Geologic Energy Management Division, the state’s oil and gas regulator. California oil regulator confirms methane leak at idle oil wells in Bakersfield 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z He was promoted from his job as the coach of the Oilers’ AHL affiliate in Bakersfield. Top 10 questions about Kings-Oilers: Can the Kings contain Connor McDavid? 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z Thirty years ago, Eduardo Cañedo Vela was the manager at a Japanese restaurant in Bakersfield and hoped to one day open a place of his own. Column: He was murdered during the L.A. riots. We can't forget Latinos like him 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z The Bakersfield City Council is working on new district lines to incorporate the growing Punjabi population. McCarthy’s second shot at first-time speaker relies on Trump 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z “Totally false and wrong,” the Bakersfield Republican said. Column: Kevin McCarthy, Mitch McConnell and the rot at the heart of Trump's Republican Party 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z CalGEM said the leaks were minor and not deemed an emergency by the air district and the Bakersfield Fire Department. California oil regulator confirms methane leak at idle oil wells in Bakersfield 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z She bought a house in Bakersfield because housing is more affordable there, but her commute to LAX is two hours in each direction. California voters say state is moving in the wrong direction, feel financial squeeze 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z The problem has become so substantial that in 2015, Kern Medical in Bakersfield formed the Valley Fever Institute, which now sees about 1,500 unique patients each year, including Shirley. ‘Superblooms of fungus’: How climate change is making valley fever worse 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z Jena Lords said she and her husband discussed leaving Bakersfield for several years because they were unhappy with the direction the state was going. Big population drops in Los Angeles, San Francisco transforming urban California 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Mr. McCarthy, who represents a Southern California district that includes Bakersfield, appears poised to easily win the gavel. EXCLUSIVE: McCarthy: I’ll be House Speaker in January 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Naseck wants to know why CalGEM doesn’t push for setbacks to apply to existing well sites, like the one in Bakersfield. California oil regulator confirms methane leak at idle oil wells in Bakersfield 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z Homero Diaz, a 24-year-old Bakersfield resident and the suspected ringleader, was arrested March 16 and faces one count of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, according to the U.S. Authorities announce 7 arrests in drug trafficking ring inquiry 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z “It’s a cool symbolic gesture which could help a couple of families. Why not?” said Kevin Jensen of Bakersfield. Homeless people in the Governor's Manson? From "STOOPID" to "Hell, yes," readers responded 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z The pandemic provided a rare opportunity for the pair to move — Lords had been working remotely as a department coordinator at Cal State Bakersfield and her husband quit his job in November 2020. Big population drops in Los Angeles, San Francisco transforming urban California 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Forward Cody Riley got tangled up with a Cal State Bakersfield player and suffered a sprained medial collateral ligament in his left knee. Inside a UCLA season on the brink that prepared the Bruins for March Madness 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Deputies in Oildale, just outside of Bakersfield, were initially called to respond to an incident in which a man was allegedly assaulting a family member. California police body camera video shows deadly shooting of suspect in knifepoint hostage situation 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Authorities started getting GPS data from Diaz’s cellphones the next day, which showed both devices “frequently displayed a location within approximately 500 meters” from Diaz’s home in Bakersfield, the complaint stated. Authorities announce 7 arrests in drug trafficking ring inquiry 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z “I’m pleased to announce my decision to commit to the University of Washington,” Rogers tweeted simply, above a graphic of the Bakersfield ball-carrier donning the purple and gold. Three-star California running back Tybo Rogers becomes UW’s first verbal commit in 2023 class 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Similar coordinated efforts have yielded results in other cities, such as Bakersfield and San Diego, California. Partnerships key to downtown turnaround 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z “Many details of the proposal before us need to be discussed by stakeholders and service providers,” Bakersfield Mayor Karen Goh said. What we know about Newsom's plan to compel care for homeless, mentally ill Californians 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z “There’s no place in our party for any of this,” the Bakersfield Republican said, though a day later, with TV cameras rolling, he declined to repeat his criticism. Column: Dealing with extremists, some Republican leaders find sorry is the hardest word 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Zimmer previously said that a week after the boys were reported missing “crucial information came to light” that brought in the involvement of police in Bakersfield. Parents plead not guilty to slaying missing California boys 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Windward 54, Bakersfield 44: Kelise Jackson scored 15 points for Windward, which will play Rosary in the Division I semifinals. Ben Shtolzberg, Dusty Stromer send Sherman Oaks Notre Dame into Division I semifinals 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Police are investigating the suspicious deaths of two people whose bodies were found inside a Bakersfield home on Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. Two found dead in Bakersfield home; investigated as suspicious 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Pump Jacks are seen at sunrise near Bakersfield, California, October 14, 2014. Oil price spike could prompt demand slump, MUFG analysis suggests 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z A pump jack is seen at sunrise near Bakersfield, California October 14, 2014. IEA meets on potential oil stocks release after Russia invasion 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Cal State Bakersfield totaled 20 points in the second half, a season low for the team. Da Silva carries Hawaii past CS Bakersfield 62-50 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z Location: Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks are about a 2.5-hour drive from Bakersfield, Calif., and a four-hour drive from Los Angeles. Wind Wolves Preserve: Try this Central California option when Sequoia is a challenge 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z For the Cal State Bakersfield women, it's been two years of hard lessons. COVID-19 toll more than physical for hard-hit hoops teams 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z The Cal State Bakersfield women will be shorted six of their 18 Big West games. COVID-19 toll more than physical for hard-hit hoops teams 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Petroleum pump jacks are pictured in the Kern River oil field in Bakersfield, California November 9, 2014. EXCLUSIVE Quantum Energy offers $2.25 bln debt fund with fossil fuel opt-out -sources 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z By then, Collins was more than 140 miles way in Bakersfield, hanging out at a friend’s house with Rose’s car. California murder victim’s family appalled by Gascón push to drop killer’s death sentence 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z |
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