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Lots of Bakersfield cops are smiling after the city council agreed Wednesday on a pay raise for the city's men and women ...
Chevron has made a major donation to three Kern County schools. $350,000 will go to Bakersfield College, Taft College and...
Looking for a job? CarMax is hiring. The auto sales company has 45 new service positions available at its Bakersfield locatio...
The Secret Witness Program is offering a reward of up to $2,000.00 for information leading to the arrestof Anthony August...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California's unemployment rate slipped a little in August to 10.6 percent, down from 10.7 perce...
Delano Regional Medical Center settles a lawsuit on behalf of Filipino-American workers. On Monday, the Equal Employment Oppo...
Petroleum counsel Harley Pinson announcedThursday morninghis candidacy for Bakersfield City Council Ward 4. Pinson says the C...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A majority of economists in the latest Associated Press Economy Survey expect the national unemployment ra...
By 2014 small business owners and their employees will have to provide health insurance that offers annual and unlimited life...
Three local police departments will soon be hiring 14 new officers. The Department of Justice's Office of Community Orien...
Plans to approve a lease on the new Kern County animal shelter building are put on hold after the city of Bakersfield makes a...
Two more former Kern Valley Healthcare District employees accused of elder abuse took plea deals. Dr. Hoshang Pormir, the for...
Starting them young is the aim of Bakersfield's Ready to Start program. On Monday, Aera energy and the Kern Community Fou...
California's unemployment rate dippedslightly in May to 10.8 percent, down from 10.9 percent theprevious month. Last mont...
California State University Bakersfield will be sending a record number of graduates across the stage this weekend. The 42nd ...
Reversal of fortune for Kern County Supervisors. The board voted unanimously Tuesday to rescind 6 percent raises for themselv...
The Kern County Grand Jury has indicted two people for insurance fraud. John Arakelian and Maria Cabangangan pled not guilty ...
On Monday, Assemblywoman Shannon Grove honored Pro Tool Services as the 32nd District's Small Business of the Year. In tw...
How would you like to give yourself a raise? Looks like the Kern County Board of Supervisors has done just that. The board vo...
FEBRUARY 13, 2012 -- Eight DUI arrests were made on Union Avenue last Friday in a crackdown on drunk drivers.According to the...
FEBRUARY 8, 2012 -- A retiring Kern County Supervisor is looking for future employment.Jon McQuiston told the Bakersfield Cal...
FEBRUARY 6, 2012 -- Bakersfield is one of several cities in California to make it on the top ten list of worst cities for fin...
JANUARY 30, 2012 -- A local lawmaker wants to send her colleagues packing.California State Rep. Assemblywoman Shannon Grove, ...
JANUARY 28, 2012 -- A robbery suspect who pulled a knife on a Rite Aid employee in Oildale, Calif. has been arrested.Accordin...
The race for a local assembly seat is heating up.Another candidate has tossed her hat into the proverbial political ring. Acc...
Stuck in a dead-end job? Looking to make a career change? Dr. Jennifer Gresham has been there, done that. Gresham left a j...
What's going on in local pension reform? Anything?David Couch appeared on the Scott Cox Show to discuss pension reform."...
Two new bills on recalculating prevailing wages are before the State of California. What could this mean for your pocketbook?...
Last month's 13.4 percent unemployment rate in Kern County is the lowest it's been in two years. But will it continue to drop...
Jobs are scarce, but they are out there.Bill Stevenson of the Career Services Center appeared on the Scott Cox Show to discu...
Is there enough money in Kern County to rejuvenate Oildale? How about pension debt? Can it be alleviated?Kern County 3rd Dist...
A central California almond and grape grower has been ordered to pay nearly $1 million in a settlement with farmworkers f...
Workers protested the shutdown of a local embattled recycling plant on Tuesday. About 60 workers expecting to be laid off wit...
Workers at a Bakersfield auto repair shop are getting their 401-K funds restored. The U.S. Labor Department said the owners o...
Pay envelopes for some Bakersfield city workers could soon get a little fatter. The Bakersfield City Council is expected to ...
You've heard it before, but here it is again, Bakersfield has made another dubious list. This time the city has been called o...
In an effort to battle Kern County's soaring unemployment, California State Senator Michael Rubio is hosting a Job and Traini...
California state laws were recently signed to benefit new moms and babies.Governor Jerry Brown signed into law several bills ...
Holiday hiring in Kern County isn’t expected to cheer up job seekers. Outplacement consulting firm Challenger, Gray and...
More than fifty postal workers protested outside of U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy's office on Tuesday.At least fifty postal worker...
The Pegasus Drive postal processing facility is among the 252 U.S. Postal Service centers nationwide facing possible closure....
A major Bakersfield hub for the U.S. Post Office could be shutting down. U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe announced on...
Just what is Gov. Jerry Brown saying about a California job-related tax that he claims is perverse?Gov. Brown says there are ...
Store employees at an East Bakersfield market captured a man inside Foodland Market with a gun on Tuesday afternoon.According...
Worksite wellness. How can a company help us stay healthy?Should be just take healthy breaks or have healthier foods in our s...
What's this? California state employees are losing about half of their nearly 60,000 cell phones? Blame it on budget woes for...
Scott Cox of the Scott Cox Show on Kern Radio, News Talk 1180 interviews Bakersfield Police Department Chief Williamson about...
A Monday morning bomb threat at Rain For Rent in Bakersfield affected hundreds of workers in the area who had to be evacuated...
Bad news for Kern County's female work force. Ladies, you aren't earning as much as your male counterparts. Our media partner...
Public safety agencies are no longer safe when it comes to Kern County's budget battles. That's the word from the board of su...