Kern County

Sami Hamdi was detained Sunday by ICE officers at San Francisco International Airport, according to federal officials. He was booked into the Golden State Annex ICE facility in the city of McFarland.

A brilliant engineering solution from the 1870s is still in use today in Kern County.

The commission is being created to address matters of “culture” and “leadership.”

Officially titled “Hard Rock Casino Tejon,” the casino will be the first of its kind in Kern County.

The state Water Resources Control Board voted last week to move the Kern subbasin out from under its enforcement purview and back under oversight of the Department of Water Resources.

It was the biggest scandal involving the executive branch before Watergate, and it had roots in a Kern County oil field.

This early Kern County leader played a major role in the history of the Central Valley.

The gold fields of Kern County gave birth to a number of rough-and-tumble mining towns, some of which still exist today.

Calls for an investigation came after Mata’s family said they had called child protective services multiple times before Mata was found dead in a motel bathtub earlier this month.

While the bulk of the California Gold Rush took place from Mariposa north, the Central California foothills to the south also had a great deal of mining activity.