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The Kern County Fire Department (KCFD) is an agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the county of Kern, California, USA. Over 625 permanent employees and 100 extra help employees protect an area which spans over 8,000 square miles (21,000 km 2 ).
May 27—A Kern County grand jury is calling for change at the county's retirement pension fund. In a report released Wednesday, the grand jury said a $1.8 billion unfunded liability at the Kern ...
Nov. 28—Nearly 200 caregivers who attend to the elderly and disabled across Kern County protested on Tuesday outside the county's top administrative building, one day ahead of their next round ...
California’s wealthiest farming family is proposing an expansion of industrial warehousing in Kern County that would fundamentally reshape the economy in the southern San Joaquin Valley.
The Kern High School District (KHSD) is a public high school system headquartered in Bakersfield, California that serves portions of the County of Kern located at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley. As of 2023, the Kern High School District serves over 43,000 students [3] [4] and 3,600 employees as of 2007. [5]
Lancaster is located approximately 70 miles (110 km) north (via I-5 and SR 14) of downtown Los Angeles and is near the Kern County line. It is separated from the Los Angeles Basin by the San Gabriel Mountains to the south and from Bakersfield and the San Joaquin Valley by the Tehachapi Mountains to the north. The population of Lancaster has ...
Vero said payroll and health insurance represented 64.4% of county general fund expenses in 2023 compared to 63.5% in 2022, calling the slight increase good news. “We knew health insurance ...
Johannesburg is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kern County, California, in a mining district of the Rand Mountains. Johannesburg is located 1 mile (1.6 km) east-northeast of Randsburg, [6] at an elevation of 3,517 feet (1,072 m). [4] The terminus of the Randsburg Railway was here from 1897 to 1933. The population was 172 at the 2010 census ...