Highway 178 through Kern River Canyon will remain closed until further notice as crews work to extinguish a 1,000-acre brush ...

Kern Public Health unveiled its new "Water Watchers" program on Wednesday, aiming to enhance water safety for children ...

The Kern River Valley community is set to celebrate the reopening of its neighborhood library with a grand ceremony on ...

I didn’t know what to expect when Chipman Junior High school teacher Michael Hutson asked me to attend the school’s “Water ...

As temperatures begin to climb back into the triple digits, kids will be swarming the local swimming pools in full force. Kern County Public Health is sharing life saving tips to the tune of Baby ...

The Kern County Sheriff's Office is set to update the Kern River deaths sign this Friday, reflecting the tragic loss of eight ...

Cars were lined up early Monday morning, stuck in Bakersfield trying to get to Lake Isabella. Asension Badillo waited an hour ...

While the 178 is closed, alternate routes are available for travelers, including routes 155, Caliente Bodfish Road, and entering the Kern River Valley through the back way along Highway 14.

Following heavy rain in the catchments , inflow into Stanley Reservoir in Mettur increased to 3,306 cusecs on Friday. The dam’s water level stood at 108.18 feet against its full capacity of 120 ...

where we have detected an approximate $310.8 million dollar inflow -- that's a 3.4% increase week over week in outstanding units (from 275,400,072 to 284,800,072). The chart below shows the one ...

Jaw Fire initially started today at 2:23 p.m. in Kern County. By Monday afternoon, 190.1 acres of land had been burnt by it, an increase of 87 acres since the last update. As of Monday afternoon ...