Patrons walk one of the main concourses at the Valley Plaza mall in Bakersfield, Calif., on June 27, 2025. The popular mall has recently been the subject of a petition to ban unaccompanied teens.

When it comes to rookie right wingers, the Oilers crop in 1980-81 ranks with the all-time best for an NHL team. Jari Kurri ...

California's high poverty rate is largely due to high housing costs, and addressing this by building more housing could be a necessary condition for solving the state's poverty problem.

Disneyland’s opening day on July 17, 1955 become known in Disney lore as Black Sunday — all broadcast live in front of a ...

Fronting one of the most successful bands of all time, Eagles drummer and co-songwriter Don Henley highlighted one country star as standing above all others.

The UC Santa Barbara Women's Volleyball team announced its 2025 schedule on Thursday, July 10. The Gauchos are set to face a fierce slate of opponents, ...

At a moment when California high-speed rail faces possible abandonment, the project's new CEO sees a tantalizing lifeline: $1 billion annually from the state, supplemented by ...

1881 — William Renshaw sets the record for the shortest men’s championship match by time and games by beating John T. Hartley 6-0, 6-1, 6-1 in 37 minutes at Wimbledon. 1934 — Babe Ruth hits his 700th ...

When Samantha Muñoz was a second grader at Fancher Creek Elementary in Clovis, her teacher told her she “wasn’t that bright” and needed extra help with schoolwork.

The Bakersfield Sound — as that raucous, outlaw strain of 1960s California country music would eventually come to be known — began as a hot, bubbling stew of diverse musical ingredients, but ...

Thousands of daredevils ran, skidded and tumbled out of the way of six charging bulls at the opening run of the San Fermín ...