Robert Price

The Beale Memorial Library unveiled a set of 10 portraits honoring nine local country-music pioneers Thursday morning.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The restaurant business can be a minefield. Between 14 and 30% of all restaurants fail in the first year, half fail within five years and two-thirds fail within 1…

Jacquie Sullivan, the longest serving member of the City Council in Bakersfield history, is now in retirement, battling a foe tougher than any she faced in seven elections: Parkinson’s disease.

METTLER, Calif. (KGET) — It’s been six months since the little town of Mettler was transformed into an entertainment mecca of sorts and by now many in Kern County have seen the casino from th…

WEEDPATCH, Calif. (KGET) – There’s not much left of the microscopic farm town of Weedpatch. Not much left except places like Collins Auction, where country music performers would come and stan…

“He is the unsung hero of KGET and all of our stations.”

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – You may remember our story from back in February on Emma Buckmaster, the Bakersfield schoolteacher whose name appears on the World War II Memorial in Jastro Park – not …

He was a businessman, a model citizen and Bakersfield High School’s first African American valedictorian. And how do we remember Henry Edward Simpson today? The answer: Not very well.

For nearly three decades, he was the fist of reckoning. The agent of legal accountability. The most aggressive prosecutor in California, bar none, and the longest serving.

Voting is a leap of faith. You submit your ballot and you hope for the best. Hundreds of thousands of Kern County voters have taken that leap of faith over the past few weeks, culminating in today’…