The California Public Utilities Commission is adding a new 357 area code as an overlay to the 559 area code region, which ...

About 15 cars of a Union Pacific train derailed on Tehachapi Pass today (Tuesday, Feb. 18), blocking traffic on the busy ...

Northeast of Sacramento, this town was praised for its proximity to the Tahoe National Forest and its historic downtown by ...

Slow-moving slides are common around the world, and especially in California, where several hundred have been mapped in ...

Tehachapi has had its share of fire scares. With California's updated fire zone maps, many of us have faced skyrocketing homeowner insurance rates, or worse, been dropped, altogether. We understand ...

Kern County Public Works is providing free sand for residents to protect their property against potential flooding Thursday ...

With heavy rainfall and storms arriving, Kern County Public Works delivered sand to nine locations for people to fill their own sandbags to use to protect against potential flooding. Bring your own ...

Storms are pelting the county this week joined by high speed winds. And the big one, is Thursday. Drivers are asked to avoid flooded streets as much as possible, ...

Tehachapi has had its share of fire scares. With California’s updated fire zone maps, many of us have faced skyrocketing homeowner insurance rates — or worse, been dropped altogether. We ...

Last month’s firestorms in Southern California not only killed at least 27 people and destroyed thousands of homes and other ...

CAL FIRE's maps only showed a ring of “very high” red hazard in the wildlands next to Altadena, with the vast majority of the city unmarked. Entire blocks of homes in Altadena were destroyed ...

While a newer experimental fire modeling approach used by the public-interest company First Street had identified Altadena as having significant fire risk and provided a detailed scale of risk levels ...