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The Tehachapi Mountains are known to include floral and faunal representatives of multiple...

It is now High Summer in the Tehachapi Mountains. After a very cool spring and early summer, high te...

Tehachapi Pass and Oak Creek Pass are known for being windy (hence all the wind turbines), which is...

I've enjoyed seeing a couple of pairs of California Quail (Callipepla californica) that were...

Bee Balm is a wonderful flowering perennial with big attractive blossoms that attract hummingbirds...

When you hear the name of the Kern County city of Ridgecrest, do you immediately think to yourself:...

This is a traditional Nuwä (Kawaiisu or Southern Paiute) story that was told for centuries to explai...

When Bud Lutge first started coming to Tehachapi in 1936, in many respects it was like another...

“The prehistoric evidences of past races found in this region are worthy of some description. . . I...

"We moved to Tehachapi in winter, and I expected it to be cold, but what really made me realize...

“Broke is what you get when you let yer yearnings get ahead of yer earnings.” – Cowboy Wisdo...

"We didn't have any electricity when we were living up at the Mendiburu Ranch (south of Highline...

"It's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!" – Kenny Che...

“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” – George R.R. Marti...

“Corn should be a foot high by the Fourth of July.” – Old American Farm Saying...

Among the best-represented genera of plants in Kern County are the lupines, who number an amazing...

As you leave the Tehachapi Valley headed east on Highway 58, you approach the Sand Canyon area....

Spring can arrive slowly and leave quickly in the mountains of Southern California, so it's nice to...

There are two clocks in Downtown Tehachapi that stand in mute testimony to disasters that befell...

Warren Johnson was a former publisher of the Tehachapi News, and he was also a local institution,...

Wet, bountiful winters like we've just experienced benefit the irruptive wildflowers that bloom in p...

C. Hart Merriam was an amazing naturalist and anthropologist of the late 1800s and early 1900s. He...

If you visit the Tehachapi Depot Museum, you will encounter references to "the Stokoe Collection"...

"Quieten'it down in the back of the bus! If you don't behave, I'll stop this bus right here and put...

"Novice falconers are only allowed to catch a Red-tailed Hawk or a Kestrel, which are the most...