Taft College becomes the first junior college to receive a glove deal in California for their baseball program. Players were ...

By then, California was already a leading producer. Farther south, in Los Angeles, oil pumps proliferated on suburban tracts as speculators chased new finds. In 1923, about 1 in 4 barrels of oil ...

Every five years, the fading US town of Taft puts on a days-long "Oildorado" festival to celebrate its glory days at the center of California's black gold rush. Thousands flock to its parade of ...

A 10-year-old child reported missing from Taft, California, was found Sunday after, authorities alleged, the child was kidnapped by a 27-year-old man who had been communicating through the popular ...

Peter M. Taft MD, a La Mesa resident of over forty-two years, passed away peacefully at home on April 16, 2022. The cause was pancreatic cancer. Born to Cuyler Griffith Mathews and Caleb Sidney Taft, ...