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WATER RESCUE TEAM SENT TO MERCED

WATER RESCUE TEAM SENT TO MERCED

With the storm expecting to due more flood damage to the north of Kern County, a Bakersfield Fire Department water rescue team has been deployed to the Merced area. Battalion Chief Tim Ortiz says the six-member unit will be there to help in case people get stuck in their cars, or other places where they…Read More

TEENS HOST 23RD ANNUAL YOUTH CONFERENCE

TEENS HOST 23RD ANNUAL YOUTH CONFERENCE

Hundreds of Kern County high schoolers got to hear from motivational speakers and others on how to succeed in life at Thursday’s Leaders in Life Youth Conference at the Mechanics Bank Convention Center. Bakersfield High School Junior Justyn Shoemake has attended for several years, and is now one of the student organizers… This was the…Read More

WOMAN GETS KUZZ TATTOO TO HONOR GRANDMOTHER

WOMAN GETS KUZZ TATTOO TO HONOR GRANDMOTHER

Here at KUZZ, we appreciate our dedicated listeners, but one has gone as far as having the station’s logo tattooed on her arm. It’s no small tattoo, either. It covers her entire left forearm. Delaney Wanzer says she did it in memory of her grandmother, who raised her and her two siblings… Wanzer is 25…Read More

‘PERSON OF INTEREST’ SOUGHT IN FEBRUARY HOME DEPOT FIRE

‘PERSON OF INTEREST’ SOUGHT IN FEBRUARY HOME DEPOT FIRE

The Bakersfield Fire Department is asking for the public’s help in identifying who they are calling ‘a person of interest’ for a fire at the Home Depot on Gosford Road on February 18. The man is described as white, in his early to mid twenties, with short black hair. He was last seen wearing dark…Read More

KERN COUNTY RENEWS DOMINION VOTING MACHINES FOR THREE YEARS

KERN COUNTY RENEWS DOMINION VOTING MACHINES FOR THREE YEARS

A very long Kern County Board of Supervisors meeting got rowdy at times while they were talking voting machines. The Board voted 3-2 to keep the controversial Dominion machines for the next three years. Many from the public were not happy, with one instance causing this exchange between Board Chair Jeff Flores and a speaker……Read More

MORE SNOW COULD CLOSE GRAPEVINE, TEHACHAPI PASS AGAIN

MORE SNOW COULD CLOSE GRAPEVINE, TEHACHAPI PASS AGAIN

It was a wintry weekend in Kern County, but these storms are not over yet… Meteorologist Jim Bagnall with the National Weather Service in Hanford says the Tehachapi and Fort Tejon areas got a couple of feet of snow over the weekend, and Bakersfield got close to two inches of rain. The National Weather Service…Read More

TEHACHAPI BRACES FOR WINTER STORM METEOROLIGISTS ARE CALLING A BLIZZARD

TEHACHAPI BRACES FOR WINTER STORM METEOROLIGISTS ARE CALLING A BLIZZARD

It’s not a term you ever hear in California, but meteorologists say a blizzard is headed to Tehachapi. City Manager Greg Garrett says the city is prepared… He’s telling residents not to go out if you don’t have to, and keep an eye on your neighbor. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration defines a blizzard…Read More

DRUGS AND WEAPONS BUST AT CALIFORNIA AVENUE RESIDENCE

DRUGS AND WEAPONS BUST AT CALIFORNIA AVENUE RESIDENCE

A previously convicted felon who is not allowed to have firearms has been arrested after several weapons were found, along with dangerous drugs. Bakersfield Police Sergeant Robert Pair says 40 year-old Richard Gomez was arrested without incident and booked into the county jail. Pair would not say, though, if Gomez was acting alone… The search…Read More

FIRST-EVER ZERO-EMISSION CONVOY SET FOR BAKERSFIELD

FIRST-EVER ZERO-EMISSION CONVOY SET FOR BAKERSFIELD

There were truckers in convoys in the 70s, but this is different… Organizer Ollie Danner claims it will be the first zero-emission convoy in the nation in Bakersfield tomorrow. It’s part of the San Joaquin Valley Clean Cities Association’s ‘Trucking With Clean Fuels’ Conference at the Westchester in Bakersfield… You can see the convoy between…Read More

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