Search
subscribe
1-6 of 6 results
Refine your results

CATEGORY

COMMUNITIES

CITY

NEIGHBORHOOD

COUNTY

NEWS STAFF

CELEBRITY GOSSIP

LOCAL LEADERS

NATIONAL & WORLD LEADERS

  • All
  • |
  • Articles
  • |
  • Video
  • |
  • Audio
Sort by:

Bakersfield priest gives prayer in Congress
Watch the story
May 12, 2011 at 6:30 PM
Monsignor Craig Harrison of the St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in central Bakersfield made a trip Thursday to the nation's capital. Introduced by House Speaker John Boehner, Harrison offered a prayer as a guest chaplain before...
Central

Calculator: How much did you spend on Afghan war?
Apr 18, 2011 at 3:47 PM
The wars in the Middle East cost American taxpayers billions of dollars each year. So what's your cut of the war costs? One advocacy group has designed an online calculator that gives you an estimate.

Jose Gaspar: Could some US-born kids be denied citizenship?
Aug 23, 2010 at 12:34 PM
Fast forward to the present, and we now see this misguided attempt against people who are the targets of a campaign against what some call "anchor babies" -- those sinister foreign infants of illegal immigrants who are invading places like Kern County.

Congress passes historic health care legislation
Watch the story
Mar 21, 2010 at 8:37 PM
A transformative health care bill is headed to President Barack Obama for his signature as Congress takes the final steps in Democrats' improbable and history-making push for near-universal medical coverage.

Politicians not welcome at Bakersfield tax protests
Apr 15, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Absent from the speaker's platform at anti-tax rallies Wednesday in Bakersfield were politicians. "We don't need to hear from the politicians, we hear from them every day," said Jimmy Davis, who showed up sign in hand to the one of the events, dubbed "tea parties."

McCarthy named chief deputy whip of U.S. House
Watch the story
Dec 1, 2008 at 6:20 PM
Congressman Kevin McCarthy, who represents most of Kern County, has been named chief deputy whip of the U.S. House of Representatives. McCarthy will be the third-highest ranking House Republican.