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BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE HONORS 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF TITLE IX

BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE HONORS 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF TITLE IX

The 50th anniversary of Title IX, giving women equal access to education and sports is being celebrated, but with a caveat. At Tuesday’s event at Bakersfield College, Head Softball coach Casey Goodman said we’re used to men being passionate about sports, but not so much for women… Goodman noted that when you take salary out…Read More

CLIFF & TANYA, BRENT MICHAELS NOMINATED FOR ACM AWARD

CLIFF & TANYA, BRENT MICHAELS NOMINATED FOR ACM AWARD

The Academy of Country Music has nominated the Cliff and Tanya Show, and our own Brent Michaels for On Air Personality of the Year. This show was nominated for a Country Music Association award last year, and KUZZ was named Station of the Year by both the ACM and CMA in 2022. The ACM Awards…Read More

MOST EVACUATION ORDERS LIFTED IN KERN COUNTY

MOST EVACUATION ORDERS LIFTED IN KERN COUNTY

Many people in the Kern County evacuation areas are being allowed to return home now. Most evacuation orders were lifted yesterday afternoon, and early last night. There are still some areas where the evacuation orders are still in place. Kern County Fire Captain Andrew Freeborn says he had about a hundred personnel on storm detail,…Read More

SHERIFF’S OFFICE HAS BEEN GETTING CALLS ABOUT FLOOD VICTIM SCAM

SHERIFF’S OFFICE HAS BEEN GETTING CALLS ABOUT FLOOD VICTIM SCAM

As it is with every crisis or emergency situation these days, it seems there are scammers out there trying to take advantage of it. Lori Meza with the Kern County Sheriff’s Office says be careful if you get a phone call asking for donations to help local victims of flooding… Meza says it could sound…Read More

TWO PEDESTRIAN DEATHS ON SAME BAKERSFIELD STREET THIS WEEK

TWO PEDESTRIAN DEATHS ON SAME BAKERSFIELD STREET THIS WEEK

It happened again. Just three days after a man was struck and killed by a car on Wible Road, and another pedestrian has died. Highway Patrol Officer Tomas Martinez says this crash was three miles away, on Wible Road at Wood Lane… Martinez says a 32 year-old man was standing in the roadway, and the…Read More

NEWSOM ANNOUNCES $30 MILLION FOR ‘TINY HOMES’

NEWSOM ANNOUNCES $30 MILLION FOR ‘TINY HOMES’

Governor Newsom is pledging the state will spend 30 million dollars to build 12-hundred small homes to help ease homelessness and clear out encampments… Some of the homes are as small as 120 square feet, and some can be built in as little as an hour and a half. It’s up to local governments to…Read More

EVACUATION ORDERS ISSUED IN KERNVILLE, WOFFORD HEIGHTS AREAS

EVACUATION ORDERS ISSUED IN KERNVILLE, WOFFORD HEIGHTS AREAS

Some of the fears about this storm are starting to come true now in Kern County, especially in the Kern River Valley… Lori Meza with the Kern County Sheriff’s Office says an Evacuation Order has been issued in the Tillie Creek, Riverkern, and Wofford Heights areas… An evacuation order is the last warning given, meaning…Read More

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

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