For decades, Kern County’s identity has been linked with the oil industry. So how and where did it all begin? Today on KVPR’s Central Valley Roots, the story of how oil became king in Kern County.

James Ortega, 19, has been arrested in connection with the 2024 fatal shooting of Daniel Wilson, a Mansfield man. He faces a murder charge in Fort Worth, Texas.

Local geologist Tim Elam will present "McKittrick and Maricopa Tar Seeps," a photographic presentation of Kern County's two fossil-bearing seep locations.

Today, a change of responsibility ceremony on Fort Sill leaves a new Brigadier General in charge.

Each curve unveils a new, unexpected perspective: overlooking the lake at the La Brea Tar Pits, eye-level with the bubble-like theater of the Academy Museum and literally on top of the traffic on ...

– Elgin‘s BAE Systems site builds M109-52 Howitzers for the Army. – Facility employs 42 people and has an $82M economic impact. – The site partners with Fort Sill and focuses on safety and ...

Scientists discovered a new microbe species, dubbed ShipGoo1, inside the rudder shaft of a Great Lakes research ship Researchers think the organisms came from petroleum fields or tar pits and survived ...

The parents of a North Texas toddler who was injured in a shooting over the weekend won’t face charges, police said. Fort Worth police were dispatched to Cook Children’s Medical Center in the ...

In the article led by Dr. Mahesh Tapas, a 2024 graduate of ECU’s Integrated Coastal Sciences doctoral program, researchers state that the study combines water modeling and farmer behavior analysis to ...

An intergovernmental support agreement between Comanche County and Fort Sill would benefit both sides, officials said. For the post, it is an opportunity to get projects done in a quicker, most cost ...