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STORY ANGLES - Local Impact Focus: Highlights how policies, developments, or events affect Kern County residents, businesses, and industries. - Economic and Market Implications: Frequently explores financial or operational impacts on agriculture, energy, and commerce sectors.

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Sep 19, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 19, 2026 · JOHN COX jcox@bakersfield.com

    State adopts new rules protecting valley's groundwater from nitrates in dairy manure (opens the original)

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    State regulators took a big step forward in their longstanding efforts to protect Central Valley groundwater from nitrate pollution with the approval this week of new rules for how the region’s dairies apply manure to soil. The regulations adopted Tuesday by the State Water Resources Control Board call for gradually reducing the amount of manure dairies spread while also increasing local nitrogen monitoring. Eventually, dairies will be expected to send their manure to farms elsewhere for limit

  2. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · JOHN COX jcox@bakersfield.com

    New apartment community will open final phase of Bolthouse Properties' work in Seven Oaks (opens the original)

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    New life is coming to one of Bakersfield’s best-known upscale neighborhoods. But the debut of one of Kern County’s largest rental communities also means the end is finally coming into view for a project that promises to transform the city’s southwest. Fuller Apartment Homes Inc. says pre-leasing work has begun at Park Center at Seven Oaks, a phased development planned to offer resort-style living at 520 units near White Lane and Allen Road. The rental community will welcome its first resid

  3. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · JOHN COX jcox@bakersfield.com

    Ross agrees to invest $500M in SE Bakersfield (opens the original)

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    A major national retailer has agreed to spend a half-billion dollars to build and operate a processing and distribution center in a part of Bakersfield unaccustomed to such investment. Ross Stores Inc. will locate the 1.75 million-square-foot facility on 160 acres near the corner of East Belle Terrace and Mt. Vernon Avenue in southeast Bakersfield, according a news release Wednesday from City Hall. Sorry, there are no recent results for popular videos.

  4. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · JOHN COX jcox@bakersfield.com

    Uricchio's has served its last chicken piccata (opens the original)

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    An Italian restaurant that breathed new life into downtown Bakersfield with its debut almost 31 years ago has permanently closed. Uricchio’s Trattoria, known as much for its welcoming atmosphere as its chicken piccata and sand dabs, announced in July it was taking a summer vacation. Then, on Monday, it posted on social media that it won’t reopen, citing “hurdles we could not overcome.” Sorry, there are no recent results for popular videos.

  5. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · JOHN COX jcox@bakersfield.com

    Golden West Casino delays move to Oildale (opens the original)

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    The owner of Golden West Casino has postponed a plan to relocate the cardroom from its longtime home along South Union Avenue to a new location just north of Meadows Field Airport. Originally, the move was planned to happen prior to the November 2025 opening of Hard Rock Casino Tejon about half an hour south of Bakersfield. But construction work has not begun, and Golden West’s owners in Irvine have since won a deadline extension from the Kern County Planning and Natural Resources Department.

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