The incident was first reported to 5:24 a.m. and it is apparently at the Taft Manufacturing Plant on South Lake Road. Taft City Manager Craig Jones said he was contacted by Kern County Fire this ...

The Kern County Coroner has identified the pedestrian found dead after being struck by a vehicle on Highway 46 in late October.

Mick Herron’s Slough House spy thrillers are, by now, one of the least well-kept secrets in espionage fiction. Everyone with even half an eye on the genre knows he’s somewhere near the top. He is ...