An immense solar-plus-storage power plant in the desert is now pumping out inexpensive clean electricity at full bore.

Kern County residents voice opposition to proposed ICE detention facility in California City that would hold 2,500 detainees, ...

Activists continue to rally against the opening of a third immigration detention center in Kern County, calling on local officials to prevent the facility from opening. Standing under pop-up tents in ...

More than a century ago, Kern County’s smallest city was much larger. A post office was located in Maricopa in 1901 and the city incorporated in 1911. By some accounts, Maricopa’s population ...