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Tehachapi Mountain Festival includes parade, family fun, rodeo and more
Tropical Storm Hilary shut down most of last year’s Tehachapi Mountain Festival, but it didn’t dampen community spirit and this year’s event is expected to be better than ever. Held on the third weekend of August since 1963, the festival is the largest of a growing list...
Evacuations ordered due to Borel Fire
(Update, 6:21 p.m. Friday) Caliente Bodfish Road has been closed at Kern Canyon Road, per Kern County Fire. Evacuees from the Bodfish and Breckenridge area will only be able to travel North on Caliente Bodfish Road to the shelter in Lake Isabella. Evacuees from the Havilah and Walker Basin Area will still be able to access Caliente Bodfish Road, South to the Tehachapi shelter location.
Red Cross opens second evacuation shelter at Lake Isabella Senior Center
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — A second Red Cross evacuation shelter has opened at the Lake Isabella Senior Center, located at 6405 Lake Isabella as of Friday. Residents forced to evacuate due to the Borel Fire are welcome. The first evacuation location, the Tehachapi Education Center, is is available for...
Red Cross evacuation shelter in Tehachapi on standby for Borel Fire evacuees
TEHACHAPI, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — UPDATED (10:43 P.M.) The American Red Cross has put an evacuation shelter at the Tehachapi Education Center on standby for any potential evacuees from the Borel wildfire. The center is located at 125 South Snyder Avenue. Anyone who has been impacted by the Borel Fire...
Black Chamber of Commerce gala saxophonist auditions for America's Got Talent
Saxophonist B. Thompson says the producers of America's Got Talent invited him to audition to perform in front of the world. This comes after he stopped in Bakersfield to perform at a local gala.
Agricultural Leaders Defend Pesticide Practices Amid Calls for Exact Location Notifications
Several farmworkers and environmental activists gathered at the Shafter Youth Center on Tuesday to demand the exact location of planned pesticide applications. The public hearing, hosted by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation, was intended to address proposed modifications to the first-of-its-kind pesticide application notification system — SprayDays. The...
New battery installation comes online in eastern Kern
A San Francisco-based energy company has flipped the switch on a $400 million battery installation next to its 4-year-old solar farm in the Rosamond area. Clearway Energy Group's 147-megawatt Rosamond Central Battery Energy Storage System is the company's first battery retrofit project, made up of lithium-ion batteries delivering power for four hours nightly to support the reliability of California's power grid.
Kern County hosts 2024 Americans with Disabilities Act conference
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — The public was invited to celebrate the 34th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act on Friday. On July 26, 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed the Act into law. The act prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities within all public and private areas.
Feds tap Bakersfield company to store energy in depleted oil wells
A Bakersfield company's plan to repurpose depleted local oil wells for energy storage has tentatively won a $6 million grant from the federal government as part of a push to decarbonize industry. The U.S. Department of Energy announced it will negotiate with Premier Resource Management LLC to build a 100-kilowatt...
ICE Detention: Where a day’s work might buy you a 14-minute phone call
One dollar a day. That’s how much immigrant detainees in GEO Group-run ICE facilities in Kern County earn scrubbing bathrooms and cutting hair, reports CalMatters’ Jeanne Kuang. Detainees at the Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex ICE facilities told Kuang they started their second labor and hunger strike in two years to protest poor working […]
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