Amid ongoing uncertainty over federal funding of local health services, a project to prevent suicide and substance use among Native American youth in Kern County could be scaled back, or possibly ...

A new wildfire was reported today at 1:33 p.m. in Kern County, California. Welch Fire has been burning on private land. At ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Kern County supervisors have approved significant cuts to the county’s public health department. They ...

The Kern County Sheriff’s Office is warning the public about an ongoing phone scam in which individuals impersonating Sheriff ...

To tell you the truth, people don’t want to attend these things without any pay,” the protest organizer told a judge.

The Kern County coroner’s office has released the identity of a Wasco resident killed Tuesday morning in a traffic collision in the city.

Kern County Sheriff's deputies should soon be able to leave the cracking, crumbling and settling Taft substation for much ...

The Kern County coroner’s office has identified a Bakersfield man who was struck by a vehicle and died on South Union Avenue the morning of July 4.

Happy Thursday, Kern County. The final day of July brings a familiar feeling: summer heat. Hot temperatures hang on through the weekend as we welcome August.

Calmatters reports that immigration enforcement advocates state raids will offer more jobs for citizens, data shows that ...

Kern County Information Technology Services (ITS) will be migrating Accela from a county-hosted system to the cloud starting ...

MUSIC: 9th Street Live is back tomorrow in Downtown Huntington! Friday’s show features a veteran local band, City Heat. Happy ...