Tesco, Britain's largest retailer by sales, is to pull out of the U.S., selling off its lossmaking Fresh & Easy supermarket chain after it failed to transfer its winning formula from the U.K. to the western states. No details are available on what...

A Bakersfield man was killed in a head-on crash Sunday morning after he drifted into oncoming traffic, highway patrol officials said.

Vintage Production California, an oil business conducting hydraulic fracking in Kern County to enhance oil and gas production, is under investigation by the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board, a state agency responsible for the...

A man was hit and killed by a train late Friday night on the tracks that run along the Central Valley Highway just south of Shafter, the sheriff's office said.

Bullet train officials say they'll keep listening to Kern County concerns about the proposed route for the high-speed rail project. The promise came at the end of a long meeting Thursday in Fresno, where the High Speed Authority board got an...

High-speed rail board officials have released the route they are calling the preferred alternative through Bakersfield.

A Bakersfield woman is dead after a plane crash in Arizona.

The Mohave County Sheriff's Office says 49 year old Josephine Simos Chan was a passenger in the plane being flown by her husband, Vidson. Their 13 year old son Cody was also on...

Authorities say a woman is dead and a man and teenage boy seriously injured after a small plane made an emergency landing near Wikieup in northwestern Arizona.

Blaming her political party for saddling her campaign with a competitive disadvantage, Fran Florez dropped her bid Wednesday for the state Senate.

Neighbors in an area south of Bakersfield say a trucking operation has moved in, and they want it stopped. The man with the trucks has applied for a county conditional use permit, and at least one nearby homeowner hopes he won't get it.