There was once a sizeable French presence in Kern County, and among the identifiable French miners...

Many people throughout the Tehachapi area, Southern California and points much farther afield were...

I started dating Helen Owens in May of 1982. She is the youngest daughter of Kelcy and Margie...

It's been reassuring this winter for longtime Tehachapi residents to see snow still lingering on...

Alice Rankin Beard was born at home in 1915 in the long-vanished town of Isabella in the Kern River...

In 2001, I took a job at the California Correctional Institution in Cummings Valley as a...

Those who love open space and wildlife were delighted recently to learn that The Nature Conservancy...

One summer morning I was in Antelope Canyon, south of Highline Road, gathering willow shoots with...

When I was born in Bakersfield at Kern General Hospital in 1941, my mother was only 17 and my dad...

When I was a little boy, one of my favorite things to look at on my family's old Tehachapi farm was...

I had gone to see an early movie in Lancaster with my friend Manney Cowan one summer Saturday, and...

On a warm, sun-drenched autumn morning in the Tehachapi Mountains, a tawny predator jumps up from...

I was running on a dirt road in the mountains near Tehachapi Mountain Park early one morning, about...

There is a remarkable native plant that can be found growing mostly unnoticed in the Tehachapi Mount...

For more than 30 years when the Johnson family owned the Tehachapi News, the newspaper was typeset...

For some people, their career and life trajectory seem almost predetermined, as they follow in...

I started playing piano when I was three years old, and played constantly after that. I was going to...

One of Kern County's most strategically important fire stations is the little-known Keene Fire Stati...

They say money talks, and they're right: it mostly just says, "Goodbye." – American Folk W...

"Ma'am, I have a powerful hankerin' to take you out to dinner if you ain't taken." – Hod Welden T...

"I'd always believed that a life of quality, enjoyment, and wisdom were my human birthright and...

"We're gonna have a hard time ever being happy if we aren't thankful for what we already have." – J...

"That ceiling isn't glass; it's a very dense layer of men." – Anne Jardim Dr. Anne Jardim was one o...

"When you appreciate what you have, what you have appreciates in value." – Robert A. Emmons R...

Among the most interesting insects to be found in the Tehachapi Mountains, or anywhere for that...