For background, Dan Araujo brought in an old map that’s been in his family since the late 1970s after reading my columns on the lengths the Kern County Land Co. took in 1891 to catch some hay ...

May 25—Gordon Nipp has seen illegal dumping sites in Kern County for decades, and it still manages to get under his skin. "I do quite a lot of hiking out in the undeveloped areas, and every time ...