John Cox
The Bakersfield Cali
Bakersfield, CA, United States
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Farm tech keeps advancing at World Ag Expo
This week's World Ag Expo in Tulare has the answer to the eternal question: What will they think of next? → Read More
Chamber asks Bakersfield to shop local with second annual Valentine’s Day promotion
Being locally owned is no minor selling point at Cornerstone Bakery on 19th Street in downtown Bakersfield. → Read More
Shoppers honor tradition by hitting Valley Plaza the day after Christmas
What she saw Monday at Valley Plaza Mall has Cece Cozine rethinking her whole approach to Christmas. → Read More
Classic downtown home’s renovation hits tough timing, cost overruns
House “flipper” Nik Boone thought he knew what kind of commitment he was signing up for last year when he agreed to pay just $231,000 for a grandiose, 3,420-square-foot home → Read More
Bill’s lack of immigration reform frustrates valley farmers, UFW
Central Valley farming interests joined the United Farm Workers union in a shared legislative defeat this week after ag labor-legalization provisions were excluded from the $1.65 trillion omnibus spending bill → Read More
UPDATED: State unveils emergency order that would head off oil industry's buffer-zone referendum
California's main oil regulatory agency said Monday it will act to block an industry-funded referendum that was expected to delay a law banning drilling within 3,200 feet of homes and → Read More
Local subcontractor pays fines of $538,400 in wage-theft case
A local construction company has paid a half-million dollars in fines after a state investigation found one of its crew leaders was skimming the paychecks of workers who received, in → Read More
Kern employers beset by outside recruiters
It's hard enough holding onto talented employees who have opportunities in big cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco, or who are considering joining the exodus from California to states → Read More
Grand jury finds unacceptable conditions at Bakersfield senior housing facility
A Kern County grand jury report released Thursday highlighted alarming conditions at a low-income senior housing facility on Wilson Road, ranging from homeless people coming and going at will to → Read More
B'nai Jacob sells synagogue for development of rental housing
Downtown's busiest residential developer has purchased the longtime home of Congregation B'nai Jacob to make room for a 51-unit, luxury rental project to be built between the Bakersfield Amtrak station → Read More
Industry submits signatures to overturn oil drilling ban
A California oil trade group announced Tuesday it has gathered more than enough signatures to put a referendum on the November 2024 ballot asking voters whether to uphold a new → Read More
Entrepreneurship classes become established, expand in Kern's periphery
The loneliness of being an entrepreneur in an outlying community has finally lifted for Lake Isabella barber Stan Crawford. → Read More
Forest Service wins ruling on logging project on Mount Pinos
A federal judge this week found in favor of a contentious plan to thin the Los Padres National Forest near the base of Mount Pinos for the dual purposes of → Read More
Rise in viral 'co-infections' pressures local hospital staffs
Bakersfield hospitals are reporting a surge in adults showing up in emergency rooms suffering from two or three viral infections — an unusual situation that has begun to strain staffing → Read More
New 'blue hydrogen' proposal in Elk Hills would be California's first
A large local oil producer announced an agreement Wednesday with an Oklahoma company for construction of a natural gas-fueled hydrogen plant whose byproduct carbon dioxide would be buried permanently in → Read More
Valley air regulators revisit emission controls at oilfield sumps
An oilfield disposal practice on the decline in California will again come under regulatory scrutiny this month by air quality officials asking whether new emissions-control technology can feasibly be applied → Read More
Almond acreage retreats in welcome trend
The overabundance weighing down California almond prices is showing early signs of easing as acreage devoted to the former darling of Kern agriculture starts to scale back in favor of → Read More
Settlement announced by Tejon Ranch restores terms of 2008 conservation accord
Tejon Ranch Co. has settled a legal dispute stemming from conservation payments the Lebec-based real estate development and agribusiness company had withheld over concerns that environmental groups reneged on a → Read More
CSUB buries time capsule for campus community of 2070
Burying a time capsule always seems to create something of a time warp as people living in the now seal away a direct message, or series of them, intended for → Read More
Bains declares victory over Perez in race for 35th District Assembly seat
Dr. Jasmeet Bains, ahead by 21 percentage points and more than 12,000 votes two weeks after the general election, declared victory Tuesday over Leticia Perez in the two-Democrat race to → Read More