Kern County's economy depends on two main industries — agriculture and oil.

Mother Nature and climate change are knocking agriculture around. And Gov. Newsom and the Legislature are vowing to end Kern’s oil production.

Efforts to diversify Kern’s economy — replacing the threatened oil jobs and providing the economic stability residents and businesses critically need — have been challenging.

But an economic bright spot on the horizon is a years-long effort by the Tejon Indian tribe to obtain federal recognition, designation of tribal land, and permission to build a casino and surrounding mixed-use residential and commercial complex along Interstate 5, near Highway 166.

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