Last week’s blockbuster jobs report, with more than 265,000 jobs added when including upward employment revisions, was very welcome news to al…
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California’s negative migration numbers are often presented as evidence of decline, as though every departing resident represents a failure of…
The city of Tehachapi is celebrating the passage of a balanced five-year budget.
The Bakersfield City Council will hear public comment Wednesday on the proposed $926 million city budget before voting to approve the spending…
Talk is cheap. Which is why you can dismiss all the rhetoric from California leaders about championing or saving democracy.
Rio Tinto, one of eastern Kern’s largest employers and the county’s seventh-largest contributor of property tax revenue, is looking to sell th…
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U.S. employers added a surprising 172,000 jobs in May as the labor market continued to show resilience in the face of rising costs from the Iran war. The Labor Department reported Friday that job growth was down slightly last month from a revised 179,000 in April. The unemployment rate stayed at a low 4.3%. The job market has been recovering this year from a miserable 2025, so far shrugging off higher energy prices and increased economic uncertainty since the United States and Israel attacked Iran in late February.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected a proposal by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a face-to-face meeting, saying he sees “no point” in it. Speaking Friday at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Putin described Zelenskyy’s open letter proposing the meeting as “boorish.” It was the first public message Zelenskyy has sent directly to Putin since Russia sent troops into Ukraine in 2022 and was a critique of the Russian leader’s 26 years in power as well as taunting him about his age. The 73-year-old Putin pointed at other global leaders who are older, adding that “the main thing is the ability to work.” In an earlier speech, Putin criticized the West's unilateral sanctions.
For generations, producers in the Golden State have kept the nation fed, fueled and clothed, and the American spirit alive. Last week I saw th…
The primary election has come and gone. Votes are still being counted and the eventual results in close contests might not be known for weeks.
