The temperature in Bakersfield peaked at 96° on Wednesday, slightly below the average of 98°. A smoky haze has settled in ...

A Kern County firefighter who beat cancer twice reported for duty Wednesday morning at Station 46 in Lamont. Randy Raymond ...

An immense solar-plus-storage power plant in the desert is now pumping out inexpensive clean electricity at full bore.

A Kern County firefighter is returning to work after overcoming cancer not once, but twice. Randy Raymond, who was first ...

Archaeologists Found 115,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Where They Shouldn’t Be ...

Harm to a child can occur within seconds, and with little effort. What victims like Genesis Mata deserve most of all is ...

Kern County Search and Rescue has expanded its team with the addition of three new K-9 members, enhancing their efforts to ...

Kern County's Ready Set Back to School event will provide 4,000 free backpacks and school supplies to local children on August 7 at the Kern County Museum from 9am to noon.

The all-volunteer Veterans Family Band has helped honor U.S. military veterans at hundreds of events in Kern County, ...

Sheriff's Deputy Jasmine Francisco battles cancer and $50,000 home repair bill as the community steps up with a pancake fundraiser ...

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Court filings indicate Kern County Child Protective Services had opened an investigation of possible abuse of an 8-year-old before the girl was found dead last weekend in a hotel bathroom ...