Above: Kern County Board of Supervisors meeting on January 14, 2025 To see full stories with photos, please purchase a copy of the newspaper at many locations (click this link for a list) throughout ...

On Tuesday, January 21 at 6:08 p.m., Kern County Fire Department (KCFD) Emergency Dispatch received a report of an elevator ...

The first snow of the season hit the mountain communities on Sunday and Monday, January 26 and 27. As expected, with snow come the “Snow Bunnies,” off the hill visitors who come to see and play in the ...

The devastation of the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires have left thousands without housing or many of their belongings. Like so many seeing the tragedy unfold, mountain residents Pam McCain and ...

At about 4:45 Monday morning on January 20, I heard what I thought were gunshots. I stepped outside to discover a fire, presumably a house, burning on the next block here in Los Padres Estates. The ...

In the United States, only three people have their own federal holiday. One is the country’s first President, George Washington. The second is Christopher Columbus (Indigenous Day in some localities).

FRAZIER PARK; Monday, Jan. 28; 4:45 p.m.; Outside telephone communication with Pine Mountain is cut off and DSL service mountainwide is down. Because of the telephone outage, the 911 emergency system ...

Our Collector’s Special 2024 Year in Photos is available to online subscribers in the E-EDITION section of the website. A collection of color and black & white photographs from January through ...