Kern County

Delano's Filipino population played an important role in the farm labor movement.

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.

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.

Wendy Castañeda Leal, a superintendent from Kern County, earned at least 670,000 votes in the race for California superintendent of public instruction.

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.

The grand hotel stood in downtown Bakersfield from 1926-1970.