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

No new lawsuits have been filed against Kern County’s revisions to its zoning ordinance to resume oil and gas permitting, but ...

Beloved actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were saddled with credit card debt at the time of their tragic deaths ...

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

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 ...

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

The Kern County Sheriff's Office is alerting residents about a surge in scam calls and text messages from individuals ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Kern County Coroner’s Office identified the pedestrian who died after getting struck by a ...

A massive 8.8 earthquake in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula triggered tsunamis across the Pacific — prompting local experts to explain what it means for California.

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.

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

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