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9 hours ago
- Entertainment
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SNAP! — Kern County Basque Club Festival
As is a longtime tradition, the Kern County Basque Festival took place at the Kern County Basque Club during Memorial Day weekend. This event highlighted the talents of the local community and the Basque living elsewhere. This year's celebration showcased pelota players from the Basque country and local dancers and singers. Festivities included performances from the band Luhartz, a mus tournament, Mass, a match with local and California pelota players and a variety of special meals.
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12 hours ago
- Business
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50+ Environmental and Public Interest Groups Oppose CA Oil Refiner Bailout, Urge State to Stand Strong on Accountability, Says Consumer Watchdog
SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- As the California Energy Commission (CEC) proposed a list of oil refinery strategies to Governor Newsom, including key regulatory rollbacks, 51 public interest and environmental groups are urging the state to stand strong on refinery accountability and consumer protection in a letter to Governor Newsom, Senate Pro Tem Mike McGuire and Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas. Among the rollbacks proposed are a pause on developing the price gouging penalty rule enacted by the legislature in 2023 and increased oil well permitting in Kern County. The groups pointed to new state data showing oil refiners making a killing off California consumers – with a combined gross refining margin and distribution margin of $1.71 in April, twice the national and historical averages. "California oil refiners do not need a bailout. New data posted by the California Energy Commission shows oil refiners made a retail gross refining profit margin of $1.02 per gallon in April," the groups wrote in the letter. "In addition, the data shows that the distribution margin, which includes the Mystery Gasoline Surcharge, was .69 cents per gallon in April. Combined these extraordinary profit and overhead costs add more to a gallon of gasoline than the cost of crude oil, as CEC created graphic below shows." "California's oil refining and distribution sector are charging Californians more than double what they take in elsewhere. It would be perverse to give this industry more subsidies." The groups include: Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments Biofuelwatch California Nurses for Environmental Health and Justice Center for Biological Diversity Center for Environmental Health CERBAT Clean Water Action Climate Hawks Vote Climate Health Now Climate Reality Project Orange County Chapter Climate Reality Project, San Fernando Valley Chapter Consumer Watchdog ContraCosta MoveOn Courage California Elected Officials to Protect America Climate Justice Action, First UU of SD Food & Water Watch Friends Committee on Legislation of California Glendale Environmental Coalition Greenpeace Indivisible Marin Local Clean Energy Alliance Long Beach Alliance for Clean Energy Ocean Conservations Research Oil and Gas Action Network Pacifica Climate Committee Pelican Media PowerCA Action Resource Renewal Institute Rise Economy Rodeo Citizens Association RootsAction San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility SanDiego350 Santa Cruz Climate Action Network SEE (Social Eco Education) Sierra Club California Sunflower Alliance Sustainable Mill The Climate Reality Project San Diego Transition Sebastopol Voting 4 Climate & Health West Berkeley Alliance for Clean Air and Safe Jobs Working Families Party 350 Bay Area Action 350 Humboldt 350 Sacramento 350 Santa Barbara "We urge you, instead, to insist that the Administration finish the job it started and that the legislature directed it to do in special sessions in 2023 and 2024: propound rules for a price gouging penalty, finalize and enforce the ABX2-1 re-supply inventory rule and begin the minimum inventory rule-making. In addition, we call on you to reject rollbacks to refinery process safety management (PSM) rules which protect refinery workers and communities while preventing sudden outages that trigger price shocks." The gross margins are what the refiners keep after the cost of crude oil, environmental fees, and taxes are deducted. The only refiner cost included in the gross margin is the operating costs for the refinery, which are reported by the refiners to the SEC at about 20 cents per gallon. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Consumer Watchdog Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
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21-06-2025
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Man found dead on Westside Parkway identified
A pedestrian who was struck and killed on the Westside Parkway has been identified by the Kern County Coroner's Office. Zachariah Nathaniel Byrd, 36, of Bakersfield was found deceased in the 5800 block of the parkway at 6:23 a.m. May 3, the coroner's office said Friday. It is not know when he was hit. The Bakersfield Police Department previously reported there was evidence the case was a hit-and-run incident, and officers arrested Tomice Fryman, 51. Kern County Superior Court records show he was charged with second-degree murder, vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence, hit and run causing death or permanent serious injury and driving with a suspended or revoked license for DUI. He is next due in court Aug. 19 for a pre-preliminary hearing.
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17-06-2025
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Coroner IDs Bakersfield man killed in Friday night shooting
The Kern County coroner's office has identified a Bakersfield man shot and killed Friday in what the agency has determined was a homicide. The agency reported Monday that Izaiah Thor Rodriguez, age 20, died at 12:40 a.m. Saturday at Kern Medical after being shot 43 minutes earlier in the 5600 block of Stockdale Highway. An unidentified juvenile who was seen fleeing the area Friday night has been arrested on suspicion of shooting Rodriguez, the Bakersfield Police Department reported earlier. It said police found a firearm believe to have been used in the shooting and that a witness identified the suspect in an in-field lineup. Anyone with information about the incident was asked to call BPD at 661-327-7111.
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17-06-2025
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Jury convicts man of attempted murder
A Kern County jury convicted a man Friday of trying to kill another man to whom he owed a substantial amount of money. The Kern County District Attorney's Office said in a news release Monday that Rogelio Alvarez will face up to 32 years to life in prison when he is sentenced July 15 by Kern County Superior Court Judge Tiffany Organ-Bowles. It said Alvarez was found guilty of premeditated and deliberate attempted murder, assault with a firearm and a misdemeanor count of theft by false pretenses. On May 19, 2024, according to the DA's release, Alvarez picked up the victim, who was supposedly a friend of his, and took him to a field off Morning Drive under the pretense that they would meet a mutual acquaintance. But it said that when they arrived, Alvarez told the victim to hand his phone to a female passenger. Once that was done, Alvarez shot the man in the cheek, the neck and six more times in his upper body before leaving him for dead, the DA's Office stated. It said the victim survived and walked to the nearest residence to summon help. The DA's release said the likely motive for the shooting was that Alvarez owed the victim a substantial debt.
