Have you ever looked up into the vastness of the night sky and been awed by the beauty and mysteries of the universe? The ...

Hello, dear friends and neighbors. Having arrived home from a hectic business jaunt, in the very wee hours of Wednesday ...

A proposed decision in the ongoing water adjudication lawsuit between Mojave Pistachios, et al., vs. Indian Wells Valley Water District, et al., has set the Navy’s reserved water right at ...

The Kern County Board of Supervisors approved three contracts with Ridgecrest Regional Hospital totaling $77,949 to provide case management and homemaking services for seniors in eastern Kern County.

Rumors that Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division will move the admiral’s flag from its current position at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake to Naval Air Station Point Mugu ...

This week, a courtroom in distant Orange County issued one of the most consequential rulings for the Indian Wells Valley in decades. On July 29, 2025, the court preliminarily determined ...

A preliminary ruling limiting the federal reserved water rights at U.S. Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake does not change the actual water use estimates being used ...

Bakersfield, CA - Congressman Vince Fong, joined by his fellow members of the California Republican Congressional Delegation, issued the following joint statement last week: ...

The Kern County Fire Department responded to a fence on fire at the far north end of Sahara Drive reported at 5:29 p.m.

When an old-timer dies, a library burns down,” said Mark Pahuta, quoting a folk saying about how history is lost when those ...

The Ridgecrest Chamber of Commerce is now accepting applications for the 2026 cohort of Leadership Ridgecrest, a dynamic nine-month program designed to cultivate informed, engaged, and inspired ...

On July 29, 2025, at approximately 10:00 a.m., a community member reported a domestic violence incident within the city limits of Ridgecrest. The reporting party identified a Ridgecrest ...