Bakersfield

She's best known as the ex-wife of both Buck Owens and Merle Haggard, but Bonnie Owens was a country star in her own right.

Don Rich's guitar playing was a key part of the "Bakersfield Sound" pioneered by Buck Owens and his Buckaroos. After Rich died in 1974, Owens said his music was never the same.

For a century, Kern County residents have turned to Hart Park to cool off, celebrate and enjoy the outdoors.

The building shaped like a shoe is an example of the "programmatic architecture" that once was common across Southern California.

When state leaders decided to build a new state college in Kern County, they evaluated sites all over the county.

As the number of detainees filling the nation's immigration detention centers grows, so does the need to get people back home if they’re lucky enough to be released.

Look in older parts of Fresno, Bakersfield and other cities, and you're likely to find a Craftsman-style bungalow.

The Streamline Moderne-style building was built in 1940, and once housed a giant neon Coca-Cola sign on its roof.

Decommissioned in the 1960s, U.S. Route 466 traveled on portions of today's Highways 58, 99, 46 and 41, from Barstow to Morro Bay.

Edward Fitzgerald Beale brought news of the discovery of gold in California to Washington, D.C., in the process winning a high-stakes clandestine race across the continent.