The Center for Biological Diversity challenged Kern County’s approval of a enormous, long-planned community in the southern San Joaquin Valley, claiming it will cause a slew of environmental problems that the county’s studies failed to address.
Read moreClaims of excessive force and deaths in custody have spurred separate California Department of Justice investigations into potential civil rights violations by police in Kern County and Bakersfield.
Read moreOfficials said Thursday afternoon that the cause of this summer’s deadly Erskine fire in Southern California was an electrical arc from a worn out power line.
Read moreAfter 10 years of legal wars, a California state judge struck down a Kern County law prohibiting Los Angeles from dumping treated sludge on the agricultural county’s farmland.
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