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Kern County grand jury lauds Kern’s mosquito control district | News

March 29, 2024

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Tenant advocates launch Delano rent control voter initiative | News

December 18, 2023

State finds Kern supervisors violated groups’ constitutional rights | News

December 9, 2023

State officials said Thursday they have negotiated an agreement with Kern government to protect its contractors’, employees’ and job applicants’ freedom of speech after a years-long investigation found the county Board of Supervisors violated local organizations’ constitutional rights in 2020. Assuming the deal is approved in Kern County Superior Court, the county will have to …

City to contract for first-ever eviction protection program | News

November 26, 2023

Citing a continued struggle to protect its most vulnerable residents from unlawful evictions, the city of Bakersfield is instituting a first-of-its-kind Eviction Protection Program. Funded with $350,000 through the city’s Measure N tax, the pilot program will contract an organization by next year to provide education and mediation on rental rights — two functions that …

State appeals local ruling in Tastries Bakery case | News

October 24, 2023

State government has revived a local court fight of national prominence by filing an appeal in the case of a Bakersfield lesbian couple denied a wedding cake in 2018 by a bakery on Rosedale Highway. The appeal filed Friday by the California Civil Rights Department and the state Office of the Attorney General is aimed …

LGBTQ+ students in conservative crosshairs | News

October 10, 2023

Chino Valley Unified in San Bernardino County, Murrieta Valley Unified and Temecula Valley Unified in Riverside County, Orange Unified in Orange County, Anderson Union High School District in Shasta County, and Rocklin Unified and Dry Creek Joint Elementary School District in Placer County all require that teachers and other school staff inform parents, generally within …

Property owner blocking new VA clinic part of vast real estate network | News

October 8, 2023

Real estate investor Peter Cohen was taking a look around Bakersfield for what he recalled as his first time, in the boom times of the mid-2000s, when he laid eyes on the city’s tallest building, Stockdale Tower. He didn’t buy the tower then — not until 2016 did a partnership he led purchase the property. Instead, …

Rental demand rises as homebuying conditions toughen | News

October 2, 2023

People unable to buy a place of their own, as a general rule, rent one from someone else — which may help explain why Bakersfield’s apartment market reversed direction in the third quarter, back toward extremely low vacancies. A new report by local multifamily real estate specialist Marc Thurston shows the city’s apartments are again pushing the …

Judge denies motion to sanction former chief assistant public defender | News

September 11, 2023

Citing “uncharted waters” in the administration of justice Friday, a judge denied a motion filed by a Kern County prosecutor seeking sanctions against former Chief Assistant Public Defender Tanya Richard — now Judge Richard — for allegedly looking at a prosecutor’s notes last month during a murder trial. At a brief hearing to consider the motion …