Food aid interventions can curb climate change-induced hardship. But should they do more?
Gertrude Siduna appears to have little appetite for corn farming season. Rather than prepare her land in Zimbabwe’s arid ...
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The Holiday Cottage brings gifts to foster children
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — With a special visit from Santa Claus himself Kern County Human Services has opened the annual ...
With key teammates out, Giannis Antetokounmpo steps up with 59 points to lead Bucks over Pistons
Milwaukee Bucks coach Doc Rivers wasn’t sure it was a good thing that Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 22 of the team’s 24 ...
Back in Top 25 spotlight, No. 22 St. John’s puts away Wagner to set up Pitino father-son showdown
In their return to the national rankings, Rick Pitino and his St. John’s team didn’t exactly look ready for prime time. Not ...
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For 3rd straight year, no improvement in Earth’s projected warming
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — For the third straight year, efforts to fight climate change haven’t lowered projections for how hot ...
The Latin Grammys are almost here for a 25th anniversary celebration
The 2024 Latin Grammy Awards are here and back in Miami. It’s a big year: the award show is celebrating its 25th anniversary, ...
An overwhelmed Philippines braces for another typhoon, the fifth major storm to hit in three weeks
The fifth major storm in three weeks approached the Philippines on Thursday, prompting more largescale evacuations and a ...
Investigation into Chinese hacking reveals ‘broad and significant’ spying effort, FBI says
A federal investigation into Chinese government efforts to hack into U.S. telecommunications networks has revealed a “broad ...
Man faces 6 years after conviction in DUI crash that injured couple in NW Bakersfield: Kern County DA
A man was found guilty of driving under the influence and injuring a husband and wife in a crash in northwest Bakersfield ...
Sri Lanka votes in a parliamentary election that’s key for its new Marxist-leaning president
Sri Lankans are voting in a parliamentary election Thursday that is key for the country’s new, Marxist-leaning president to ...
2024 CIF Central Section football playoffs – semifinal, quarterfinal rounds
In Division I-A, three Bakersfield schools — Bakersfield, Frontier, Centennial — make up the semifinal round. Frontier hosts Centennial, while Bakersfield hosts Arroyo Grande on Friday night.
Kern County man convicted of 2 fraud schemes
A Kern County man was found guilty of 15 fraud-related counts involving two schemes: one for filing false insurance claims, ...