Bakersfield
Bakersfield resident Douglas McGuire, 11, has been selected as a top-five finalist in the second annual nationwide Ford Funny Car Design Contest.
McGuire estimated his design took about half an hour to make using colored pencils and No. 2 p... - Posted on September 10, 2009
If ambition could be measured in inches, Cal State Bakersfield student Sundai Love surely would tower over her competitors on "America's Next Top Model," which begins its 13th cycle on The CW network Wednesday.
Alas, drive and guts might ad... - Posted on September 10, 2009
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A lost dog has been reunited with his family with a little help from East High football players photographed with him for Thursday's Californian.
A photographer was on the practice field earlier this week taking pictures for the newspaper's... - Posted on August 28, 2009
Flowers are beautiful. People like photographs of flowers, but there is so much to consider: how to frame the photo, how to get a sense of shape, how to avoid over-exposing.
So many floral photographs reflect the sunlight so brightly that i... - Posted on August 28, 2009
After struggling for more than a month with frustrating technical problems, the British Steam Car Challenge broke the land speed record for a steam-powered car Tuesday at Edwards Air Force Base in eastern Kern County.
Driver Charles Burnett... - Posted on August 28, 2009
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The trees or the beaver? The beaver or the trees?
It's a question to bedevil even the most ardent of nature lovers and one being debated yet again after a weekend bender by the infamous bike path beaver made toothpicks of a pair of good-siz... - Posted on August 28, 2009
What goes well with ice cream? Neighbors. Dreyer's has stuffed the freezers of five Bakersfield families, winners of a writing contest meant to promote neighborliness. The idea was for the winners to invite folks to an ice cream block party so tha... - Posted on August 11, 2009
The jokes started rolling through Dave Stringer's head almost immediately. "I thought it might be the rare and elusive 'yellow-striped Bakersfield skunk,'" he said with a chuckle. He had to make sure.
So Wednesday evening, Stringer diverted... - Posted on August 5, 2009
Bombarded by dire economic news and our consumer confidence shaken, who wouldn't want to get into a sailboat and head off into a Pacific Ocean sunset?
That's exactly what Rich and Lori Boren and their two young children, Amy and Jason, did ... - Posted on August 5, 2009
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People complain. That's what they do. If it's not a national sport, it should be.
If it were, the podium would be packed. People would be falling off the back of the stage. The medal company would have to work 24/7 to churn out all the blue... - Posted on August 5, 2009
