March 23, 2025 – Kern County Sheriff’s Office officials report that on March 21, 2025, at approximately 2:45 a.m., Kern ...

Unarmed Mickel Lewis Sr. was killed by Sheriff's Deputy Jason Ayala. The jury award is the second-highest in a police ...

It was a case where the law enforcement officer refused to acknowledge fault. It was a case in the heart of red California - ...

March 23, 2025 – Kern County Sheriff’s Office officials report that on March 17, 2025, Deputies assigned to the Kern County Sheriff’s Office Frazier Park Substation were dispatched to the 600 block of ...

No guns were found on or near Lewis, although a handgun was recovered behind a utility pole near where one of his passengers ...

A federal jury awarded $30.5 million this week to the family of a man who was shot and killed on Oct. 2, 2020, by a Kern ...

After a deadly, deputy-involved shooting in 2020, Kern County will have to pay $30 million to the family of the man ...

A federal jury in Fresno has awarded $30.5 million to the family of a man fatally shot by a Kern County sheriff’s deputy ...

The Kern County Sheriff's Office arrested a Taft man Friday on suspicion of crimes including grand theft of copper wire, possession of stolen property, resisting arrest and being a felon in possession ...

A man suspected of copper wire theft was arrested following a pursuit in eastern Kern County early Friday morning, said the ...

The Kern County Sheriff's Office is seeking the public's assistance in identifying two individuals suspected of placing a ...

A 39-year-old woman last seen by her family March 8 near Fourth Street and Union Avenue is considered missing and is now ...