Its declining production totals notwithstanding, California still has some of the best oil fields in the United States — but ...

As promised, oil producers have joined the fight against a state law that bans well maintenance and new drilling within 3,200 ...

An enthusiastic crowd at Hodel's welcomed Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton to Bakersfield on Wednesday night.

When a small company leased an oil field in California’s Central Valley six ... roughly an hour west of Bakersfield, is surrounded by a sea of large black oil pumps. Umbro notes that the new ...