It's no secret that Kern County's workforce of doctors, nurses and other health care professionals is not sufficient to fully ...

Kern County's 13-year campaign to streamline local oil and gas permitting would be given 10 years of protection from ...

President Donald Trump’s plan to boost artificial intelligence and build data centers across the U.S. could speed up a ...

Local business owner and entrepreneur David Mitchell was about as far away from Bakersfield as he could get — while still ...

A new immigration detention facility in California City is getting ready to open even as members of the public voice ...

Forty-eight people have died in a plane crash in Russia’s Far East, the head of the country’s Amur region said in a statement ...

The Kern County coroner's office on Thursday said the man who was seen going into the Kern River near Black Gulch near Bodfish on July 12 and who was found ...

The California Highway Patrol seeks information from the public regarding a May 11 hit-and-run incident that killed a Bakersfield man on a bicycle in Oildale.

The Highway Patrol Central Division will conduct a RAID operation — or Rapid Arrest of Intoxicated Drivers — Saturday throughout Kern County.

MOSCOW (AP) — 48 people have died in a passenger plane crash in Russia's far east, officials say. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, ...

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have sealed a major trade agreement that will reduce tariffs on products like Scotch whisky ...

The B City Council is moving ahead with its consolidation of two failing water companies on the southwest edge of the city.