Laura Kraft

Kern County Administrators release their pleasantly plump spending plan for fiscal year 2000-2001.

A new report endorses the use of fines to punish gas stations and oil companies who have polluted public drinking water sources.

The New River will be the subject of a clean-up effort that should deliver cleaner water to the Salton Sea in four years or less.

Not enough sellers, not enough homes, what's a prospective homebuyer to do?

Op Ed Columnist Karen Hershenson bemoans the fate of the Richmond Ferry, currently slated to be discontinued September 17, while offering solutions on how to keep it going.