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The Bakersfield Police Department Traffic Unit will hold a DUI and driver’s license checkpoint from 6:30 p.m. Friday to 2 a.m. Saturday at an undisclosed location in the city.

PHOENIX. Arizona — Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk has endorsed Vice President JD Vance for president, an early sign of influential support for a likely leading candidate in 2028. Kirk, who took over leadership of Turning Point after her husband, Charlie, was killed in September, announced her decision during a speech Thursday at the…

Another housing development is being proposed in southwest Bakersfield, this time at the site of an existing almond orchard near Independence High School.

The Kern County coroner’s office has identified the pedestrian who was struck and killed by a vehicle Monday on southbound Highway 166 south of Soda Lake Road in Maricopa.

Locally elected Reps. Vince Fong and David Valadao joined more than 100 other members of Congress Thursday in asking U.S. Senate and House leaders to give more help to specialty crop growers than the $1 billion offered in the Trump…

RALEIGH, N.C. — Four-term North Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt, a towering figure in North Carolina politics in the late 20th century who helped the Democratic Party focus nationally upon public education reform, died Thursday at the age of 88, his daughter Lt. Gov. Rachel Hunt announced. Hunt, whose career provided a prototype for the modern…

Mid-size Kern County oil producer Berry Corp. became part of rival California Resources Corp. on Thursday, further consolidating local oil-field operations amid expectations that a challenging period for the state’s petroleum industry is nearing an end.

A judge declared a mistrial Thursday in the case of Maya Hernandez, the 20-year-old charged with leaving her two children in a car on a hot day, leading to the death of one of them.

The Democratic National Committee is refusing to release its autopsy of the party’s major 2024 losses it announced on Wednesday, breaking Chair Ken Martin’s public pledge to do so. The decision underscores the party’s challenges in grappling with its electoral setbacks as it heads into what is expected to be a stronger midterm year. The…

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) wants Medicare for All back in the health care debate. The former Congressional Progressive Caucus chair plans to present polling to her House Democratic colleagues next month as she argues for the electoral merits of Medicare for All — even in battleground districts the party must win to flip the House…