Graveside funeral services will be held on Saturday, August 15, 2026 at 10:00 AM at the West Side District Cemetery, Taft for longtime Taft resident, Gary R. Sailor, 78.

The heat wave has apparently broken. After a long hot spell capped by three days of 110-plus temperatures, cooler weather is coming and daytime highs could drop by more than 20 degrees, forecasters ...

Motorcycle racing is likely coming to downtown Taft this fall after the Taft City Council preliminary approval to the Taft GP ...

Taft Union High School graduate Logan Clark (Class of 2022) has been promoted to play AA baseball for the Akron Rubber Ducks in the Cleveland Guardians organization.

The 2026 Taft Union High School Volleyball season kicks off this week with Bakersfield-based tournaments for JVs and Freshmen (JVs, Friday-Saturday at West HS and Frosh, Saturday at South HS) ...

With this season’s Cross Country schedule starting September 5 at the 2nd Annual Central Coast Cross Country Invitational at Los Flores Ranch, the Taft Union High School Cross Country team ...

Last year’s Taft Union High School Girls Golf team won its final two matches of the regular season to earn a tie for first place in South Sequoia League standings ...

Fresh from a spirited Blue & Gold intrasquad practice last week (August 7) and revved up for this week’s August 14 scrimmage against West HS and Mira Monte HS, the ...

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In Maricopa, the ballot will have three challenger seeking to unseat incumbents Virgil Bell and Mayor Corey Morse. The challengers are Malinda Adams, Richard Albright and John Crump. Elsewhere, in ...

The Taft Planning Commission gave the go-ahead for the New Hope Temple to build a new 15,000 square foot church facility on the western edge of the city. The church was granted conditional use permit ...

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