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Jose’s Mexican Cafe & Cantina is celebrating its 50th birthday this month.

Nearly five months after a severe hailstorm, numerous buildings at Mesalands Community College still are awaiting repairs. That frustrated board of

Residents of this conservative yet rapidly changing inland California city watch the chaos in Washington with patience and resolve

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Outside Dagny’s Coffee Co., a downtown cafe that serves as a kind of crossroads for a broad swath of Bakersfield, Katherine Haas, 38, was trying to make sense of Kevin McCarthy’s stunning ouster as House speaker this week. But she wasn’t viewing it through the lens of the bitter infighting of Washington. She was thinking of his representation of the increasingly diverse city of 400,000 that watched as he built a political career through the sheer force of his affability and

Bakersfield, Calif., became more diverse and culturally expansive while the former House speaker was increasingly caught up in Washington’s barbed politics.