For the third straight summer, Taft classrooms are being turned into laboratories, design studios and creative workspaces as ...

The Taft City Diamonds 16u travel softball team returned from its 4th of July Week hiatus and won two out of three games at last weekend’s NSA (National Softball Association) ...

As America celebrates 250 years of freedom, it's time to honor the veterans, service members, and their loved ones who have ...

On July 1, 2026, deputies assigned to the Kern County Sheriff’s Office Taft Substation, along with detectives from the Rural ...

Every year on July 20, kids and adults alike celebrate National Lollipop Day. Whether you call them lollipops, pops or ...

Modern video games seek to immerse players in the world of the game, and those based on historical events can not only teach ...

The Kern County Coroner has identified the teenage boy killed in Lost Hills last week as 17-year-old David Vargas Vasquez of Lost Hills ...

An arrest warrant has been issued for a Taft woman charged in connection with a fire that seriously burned a Taft man in late January.

The victim of a stabbing in Ford City on July 10 survived the attack, the Kern County Sheriff Office said Tuesday afternoon.

The Board adopted a Resolution honoring Cherree Miller, Department of Human Services, upon her retirement with 35 years of ...

Independent oil producers in Kern County are feeling a tighter squeeze as fewer buyers, shrinking pipeline access and lower global crude prices continue to cut into the value of locally ...

Several construction projects are ongoing at Taft Union High School and another major project is now scheduled to get ...